I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
I didn't realize when I brought him back here that you'd inflict more damage." I said, once I'd finished the story. "I… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
I'd slept with Ranger! Not sexually, of course. But I'd been in his bed. And then there was the evil shower gel.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good… — Alex Gansa Copy Share Image
I'm a southern girl from Arkansas and I am just tryin to do my thing in the business. To make a long… — Kiley Dean Copy Share Image
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home. — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told. — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I have kind of an intuitive feeling as a composer as to what would be appropriate for those groups and how to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The jokes now, it's just more stories and personal experiences. And just talking about things that really happened. It's just becoming more… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image