Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin Copy Share Image
“Stories, news, past heartbreak, future happiness, all of these were to be shared by the person at the center of the tale.” — Ellen Herrick Copy Share Image
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were. — James Franco Copy Share Image
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it… — Suzanne Shaw Copy Share Image
American Horror Story re-energized me; it re-energized my career. There’s no shame in recognizing that. It’s exposed me to a whole new… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end.… — Fredric Brown Copy Share Image
I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
At Pixar, I don't have to compromise at all. When I look at the finished "Toy Story 3," I don't sit and… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
[Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and… — Luciano Berio Copy Share Image
We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
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