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
