In the story of the good Samaritan, Jesus not only teaches us to help people in need; more deeply, he teaches us… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Lore is my favorite kind of story. Because it's not only historical, it's a lie everyone knows is a lie but tells… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not… — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals TWELVE… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them.… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of… — Pam Allyn Copy Share Image
When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on. — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success. — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My job on The Gunslinger Born was to take Stephen King's novel and transform it into a detailed, seven issue, scene-by-scene story. — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out. — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image
If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As ever, Morpurgo's warmth and humanity suffuse a story of courage, love and hope. — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction? — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at… — Vanessa Kerry Copy Share Image
The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them. — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image
Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
