It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
This is the premiere food symposium in the world. To quote you guys: 'Intended to invoke a sense of courage and urgency...Enabling… — Roy Choi Copy Share Image
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about… — Peter Segal Copy Share Image
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season',… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time,… — David Selby Copy Share Image
Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big… — David Raiklen Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking about story, and the development of ideas or images, so with all types of media, I'm simply trying to… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Annabeth Thalia and I hadn't seen each other in months but between the blizzard and the thought of what we were about… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning,… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
The way I prepare is through script analysts and back story. I create back story for a character based on script analysts,… — Katie Cassidy Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in… — William James Copy Share Image
“I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I… — Caroline Dhavernas Copy Share Image
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you’re old enough, this story that… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image