American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of… — Bobby Farrelly Copy Share Image
There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life. — Marjorie Dannenfelser Copy Share Image
I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
There were stories coming out of Thailand that slave labor was being used to catch and process the seafood we eat. They… — Lourdes Garcia-Navarro Copy Share Image
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself:… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons… — Danah Zohar Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health… — Mike Johanns Copy Share Image
Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables.… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the Christian claim is really true, that this is just a warm up to the big event. That this… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The new approach to health care will feature the healing power of story. In the clear understanding that finding meaning in any… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber 'warfare.' — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
“When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by reason - we talk… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present. — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands,… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o. — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves. — Faith Prince Copy Share Image
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
![“This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.” quote by Liza Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/997/liza-campbell-17930_art_this-was-my-first-novel-the-dissemblers_3041258.jpg)
