Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the… — Anthony Edwards Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse). — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because… — Tabitha Soren Copy Share Image
There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist — Jenny Slate Copy Share Image
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature… — John Drane Copy Share Image
“For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
There are some stories that can be told in two hours and some in 20 minutes. — Karthik Subbaraj Copy Share Image
There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to… — Noel Tichy Copy Share Image
We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide,… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's… — Barry McGuigan Copy Share Image
Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you’ve made me… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
