I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies.… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order,… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it's extremely difficult to do that. And very few people… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the… — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, "What are you working on now?" And I said I was writing a story… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their… — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently,… — Will Hermes Copy Share Image
For me, being able to work with somebody who I don't have to translate my experience to all the time - that's… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of '62 and the spring… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think… — John Green Copy Share Image
Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
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I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a… — Melissa Peterman Copy Share Image
The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters. — George Jackson Copy Share Image
I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again. — Rumi Copy Share Image
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