Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn’t make you who you are. It is the rest of… — Soothsayer Kung Fu Panda 2 Copy Share Image
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more… — Rudolf Buitendach Copy Share Image
They [comic books] are not a genre, they are not something to get hot and cold from one year to the next,… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Your story needs to move people’s spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells… — Pat Sajak Copy Share Image
We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I have 236 movies on my queue and I feel like I should always be watching movies. Like if I wake up… — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story. — Jacob Gates Copy Share Image
So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over.… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to. We come into this world on our own- in… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested… — Bill Williams Copy Share Image
The test for me, when I read other people's scripts, is whether I feel like there's something about me that is the… — Francesca Gregorini Copy Share Image
I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Clothe yourself in your authority. You speak not only as yourself or for yourself. You will speak and act with the courage… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
![“[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.” quote by Raoul Peck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/060/raoul-peck-8162_criticize_james-baldwin-was-a-revelation-for-me-th_550467.jpg)
![“I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more they started to confide in me. I read the script and thought it was really interesting, and then a week later I discovered that this wasn't just any old script, this was…” quote by Rudolf Buitendach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f46/rudolf-buitendach-44228_felt_i-was-approached-by-the-filmmakers-i-did_550709.jpg)
![“They [comic books] are not a genre, they are not something to get hot and cold from one year to the next, they're the exact same thing as books and plays: they are a source of great stories and colorful characters.” quote by Michael Uslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9b7/michael-uslan-31100_book_they-comic-books-are-not-a-genre-they-ar_550727.jpg)
