I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
One of the greatest sins in any story is false suspense. The kind of 'suspense' that disintegrates the moment you give your… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
What I want to do is basically tell my generation's story about how music and culture helped affect a generation, and a… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I don't therefore know how to write for the big papers. It must be kids - students - and retired people. And… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
[ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change… — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
I wish that I had gotten a chance to do another season of [ Gigi Does It], to see if I could… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
The starting point is to create a qualitative understanding of market drivers. You need to get into the head of the consumer… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience. — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
If you are building a thirty-story building and you use worm-eaten wood for the frame, inferior structural supports, and other fourth-rate, low-grade… — Harvey Diamond Copy Share Image
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire… — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love… — Ted Demme Copy Share Image
I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I have heard so many stories of contractors, and I've met some, too, who worked for Donald Trump, produced the goods and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
![“[ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness to Putin is a very scary thing for the country and the fact that the news was dominated for 33 days I think it was by WikiLeaks stories, that had an impact on…” quote by E. J. Dionne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d2f/e-j-dionne-18102_barack_donald-trump-is-candidate-who-said-he-ha_643755.jpg)
![“I wish that I had gotten a chance to do another season of [ Gigi Does It], to see if I could explore the story more, or the character more, and also find an easier way to make the show. We never got that opportunity. But I'll always be super, super proud of it.” quote by David Krumholtz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/758/david-krumholtz-7751_chance_i-wish-that-i-had-gotten-a-chance-to-do_644524.jpg)
![“I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in my house and all of it seemed to say that there was room for a version that delivered, in this story, which seems to invite a feeling in people and I think that is some version of a…” quote by Kenneth Branagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4a8/kenneth-branagh-4630_animated_i-looked-at-the-1950-animated-film-cinde_645630.jpg)
![“We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].” quote by Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f1d/terence-mckenna-287_anecdotes_we-psychonauts-are-all-going-to-go-into_646498.jpg)
![“[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me…” quote by Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f0/orson-scott-card-134_audience_it-was-written-and-sold-i-knew-it-was-a_647650.jpg)
![“I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film.” quote by Clint Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6bb/clint-eastwood-513_certain_i-have-great-respect-for-the-fbi-and-i-k_648960.jpg)
