Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames. — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is? — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“Some stories don’t make movies. I mean superheroes, spies, serial killers… sure. But there’s some feelings you can’t put on a screen.” — Damon Suede Copy Share Image
“Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he… — Ed Wood Copy Share Image
Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money… — Questlove Copy Share Image
It's nice if you're making a regular pop or rock album and you get ten little songs. But I really try to… — Hans-Peter Lindstrøm Copy Share Image
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot,… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not… — Saya Woolfalk Copy Share Image
I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have… — Jessica Jackley Copy Share Image
Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders,… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One of the cool things, obviously there's 'Scandal,' 'House of Cards,' there was 'West Wing.' Other than that Jack Lemmon/James Garner movie… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
I don’t recommend that average iPad Air owners upgrade to the Air 2. But what about the vast majority of iPad owners… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
People are stumbling over the simplest things. Take, for instance, that word believeth. You would think that was plain enough for anybody,… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
