I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“Create stories that will leave an everlasting impression even when you are not around to tell it” — Marie Guillaume Copy Share Image
With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the… — Kevin Rose Copy Share Image
I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music,… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides.… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
FEARLESS is a vivid account of one man's journey from all-American boy to all-American hero. Blehm's writing takes you beyond the battlefield… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo 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
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
All of the best love stories have one thing in common, you have to go against the odds to get there. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think any good singer needs to be a good actor. You have to be able to tell the story. — Erica Schroeder Copy Share Image
“I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.” — Jeanne Voelker Copy Share Image
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
