We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There are stories of Maui everywhere in the South Pacific. They're different. Different areas have different interpretations. But and so we [with… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
If we allow our one-and-a-half year old to "help" us fold laundry he will learn something about buttons, zippers, snaps, where things… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
When I originally sold X-Men it was because I knew there was 40 years of stories. That was the point! Not only… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process.… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Alexander and I sat together on a backyard swing. "This is like a dream come true," Alexander said as we gently swung… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
Why would you expect people who don't know any history to be able to report on history? Why would you expect people… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals TWELVE… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands,… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
![“There are stories of Maui everywhere in the South Pacific. They're different. Different areas have different interpretations. But and so we [with John Musker] fashioned, that was kind of the inspiration and we came up with a very simple basic storyline, focusing on Maui.” quote by Ron Clements](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb9/ron-clements-54148_areas_there-are-stories-of-maui-everywhere-in_1414875.jpg)
![“[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of…” quote by Emily Barton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f18/emily-barton-18422_all-kinds_michael-chabon-who-is-himself-a-brash-an_1676238.jpg)
![“There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they want to keep that story going. And it's very important that writers challenge that occasionally and not just trust their parent companies to tell them.” quote by Danny Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/737/danny-boyle-3499_apples_there-is-a-steve-jobs-that-apple-would-l_2042804.jpg)
![“While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.” quote by Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ce/barbara-tuchman-3945_all-kinds_while-husbands-and-lovers-in-the-stories_2497548.jpg)
