If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up… — Marla Maples Copy Share Image
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Whether it's Batman, Superman, Watchmen, the 300 story, we just make stuff that I want to see. — Thomas Tull Copy Share Image
It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The… — Trisha Yearwood Copy Share Image
There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we… — A. H. Almaas Copy Share Image
Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I… — Kim Ji-woon Copy Share Image
I would thank God, but I don't believe in it... It's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go,… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If… — Tabitha Soren Copy Share Image
My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life,… — Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski Copy Share Image
When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
You always know when one of the first ["Harry Potter" movies] are on TV, because you'll get a text message from one… — James Phelps Copy Share Image
The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
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