Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I've got these five-pound weights and a treadmill in the living room. I work out the other parts that have affected my… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
Before Luce could reply, a skinny, dark haired girl appeared in from of her, wagging her long fingers in Luce's face. "Ooooooh,"… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
[The Other Woman]s not only a story about friendship and women and how we support one another and how we're there for… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing.… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions. — William Mapother Copy Share Image
So,” Royce said, “you want us to escape from this prison, kidnap the king, cross the countryside with him in tow while… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey. — Katie Finneran Copy Share Image
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
“The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below).… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
“Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing… — Bobby Thomson Copy Share Image
I can't just sit on my daughter's bed and just say 'n---' all night and then put her to sleep. I just… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the… — Betty White Copy Share Image
“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh,… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes,… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
“Every heart needed to contain stories that were too overwhelming to reveal to another human being.” — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
As smartphones have allowed us to have our computers, emails, social media feeds, and a full surveillance system in our pockets at… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
![“The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn good at it he gladly would've given her fifteen more. So this story got me thinking, who was Gypsy Rose Lee? Who could possibly take the simple act of peeling off a glove and make…” quote by Karen Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/424/karen-abbott-13658_articles_the-cousin-said-that-gypsy-rose-lee-took_512540.jpg)
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