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
