The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone. — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life. — Charlie Rowe Copy Share Image
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than… — Garret Dillahunt Copy Share Image
Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories;… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to… — Sarah Chalke Copy Share Image
I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language… — Steve Cosson Copy Share Image
I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
We [me and friends] like to have surprising stories, but the dynamic and the friendship is the same. When you go out… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
We were such fans of Sleepy Hollow, in all of its iterations - growing up with the Disney show, and then Tim… — Alex Kurtzman Copy Share Image
To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Every now and then, people will recognize me at restaurants or Universal Studios or something. I'll always take a picture with them… — Matthew Moy Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together.… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
There is a difference between something being essential, and it being necessary. If you take your favorite book and strip it down… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
![“We [me and friends] like to have surprising stories, but the dynamic and the friendship is the same. When you go out with your crew of friends and you get into trouble, at the end of the night when you come home, you're still the same crew of friends. It's just the story that you have to tell.” quote by Adam DeVine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dd7/adam-devine-13045_coming-home_we-me-and-friends-like-to-have-surprisin_2979285.jpg)
![“More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together. I felt better about the material, and found myself writing a letter from Bridget to her son: explaining the original story of how he came to be, from his own Mum.” quote by Helen Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/013/helen-fielding-2564_baby_more-than-two-years-after-mad-about-the_2981567.jpg)
![“The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused in such a horrific way. I lost it a lot of times watching that film, particularly when seeing the grace of the man when he finally makes it back home aged, changed, forever…” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c06/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_absence_the-story-in-12-years-a-slave-serves-as_2982882.jpg)
