Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.” — D.J. Weaver Copy Share Image
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It was very difficult to go farther than that in the arguments with my father because he would always have a story… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
(Human) beings, in Pagan times would kind of like, listen to the stories and, they could kind of, identify - . They… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first 'Survivor' it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head.… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors,… — Tim DeKay Copy Share Image
There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you look at the New York Times and you pick it up in the morning, at the top of the paper… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation,… — Joey Sturgis Copy Share Image
I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give… — Jaco Van Dormael Copy Share Image
When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
Certainly, it includes that. I want the story to be interpreted in as many ways as possible, and of course, the bad… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas,… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully… — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose… — James Orbinski Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
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