Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with approximately two-plus hours every few years to do a story, you don't have the luxury of having… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Men, your primary responsibility in your home, after your wife, is you to disciple your own children. And if you don't do… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney.… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
“I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it. — Mae West 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
I think as you grow up and you see things which are around you and you ask questions and you hear the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy. — Parul Sehgal Copy Share Image
As Democratic losses mounted in Senate races across the country on election night, some liberal commentators clung to the idea that dissatisfied… — Byron York Copy Share Image
There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself,… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
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