You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship?… — Pamala Oslie Copy Share Image
We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them,… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
A friend of mine, a poet, Rebecca Wolff recently said to me, "You know, your stories are really voice-driven," and I guess… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl… — Al Jaffee Copy Share Image
For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers. — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
In the country field, we’re brought up in spiritual homes, we’re taught to “judge not lest you be judged,” and it’s always… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear… — Carol White Copy Share Image
Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Americans are in need of very objective information, and sometimes it's easier to absorb the message through entertainment and through a great… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the… — Nick D'Aloisio Copy Share Image
Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who… — Steven James Copy Share Image
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq,… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
A conventional ‘success’ story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. I’d like… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for a fresh perspective because it's fun to tell stories that are original and new in some way. — Jack Black Copy Share Image
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