There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I… — Steven Zaillian Copy Share Image
Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its… — C. Sigman Copy Share Image
Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and… — Meir Shalev Copy Share Image
I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time.… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We're on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer's and… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
I don't really like over-explaining the songs. Everyone constantly asks what the songs are about, and I think the thing is that… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like… — Elena Anaya Copy Share Image
But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story. — Jose Andres Copy Share Image
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“All stories are lessons. Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
It was such an amazing experience to be able to spend nine days on a boat with these Greenpeace people. Some of… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful. — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
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The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I feel that our stories are cross culturally irrelevant, and I'm a member if a larger community of people who have no… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
Literally, the piece at the end is where the universe is cracked apart, it's a big moment. Basically, they, the filmmakers, have… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
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