When we tell stories about things that are important - love, fear, beauty - we change the way people think about the… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one. — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong? — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story. — Rachael Yamagata Copy Share Image
For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them. — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition… — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
When you're guest-starring on another show, it really requires you to jump through hoops in a way, because you're servicing the stories… — Kim Dickens Copy Share Image
In workshopping short stories I learned how to get character down, and how to work with ratios of literal to fantastic to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value. — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide. — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
A lot of the challenge with TV, as opposed to making movies, is that you have to leave room for the characters… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them. — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
When you are gestating, you feel full of life, you feel full of joy, you feel full of fantasy, of stories. — Thalia Copy Share Image
The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to… — William Devane Copy Share Image
Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. — Sid Caesar Copy Share Image
Dance is so prominent, now more than it's been before, but I still feel like there's this void that needs to be… — Haley Lu Richardson Copy Share Image
The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
