I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
At some point, you realize you can't provide a perfectly monolithic description of a foreign culture's future any more than you can… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
So when it comes down to it, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie: There is only one moral of the… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and… — John Green Copy Share Image
No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own… — Jim Bob Duggar Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Living your life is a long and doggy business. . . . And stories and books help. Some help you with the… — Anne Fine Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in… — Joe Locke Copy Share Image
He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
