I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you. — Bill James Copy Share Image
The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my… — Scott Stapp Copy Share Image
The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new… — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
There is an old Indian saying, "When legends die, dreams end. When dreams end, there is no more greatness." Leaders like Walt… — Bill Capodagli Copy Share Image
I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing… — Joachim Trier Copy Share Image
She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of… — Bebe Copy Share Image
I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you… — Tabitha Soren Copy Share Image
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You don't want to be glib; you want to treat every story respectfully. — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
“Memories that have never been told aren't yet solid stories; they are potential stories. It may be that the interlocutor is the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal… — Annie Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not… — RZA Copy Share Image
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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women,… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
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Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
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