Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Tell your story. That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever. — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.' — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
People like stories that are bigger than life, about characters with unusual powers. And when you get all the characters in the… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time,… — David Selby Copy Share Image
To get to this place of a warrior’s courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press,… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon.… — James Spann Copy Share Image
As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor.… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
Raisa felt relieved, yet oddly disappointed. She was the blooded princess heir, yet in servants' clothes she was apparently unrecognizable. In the… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell. — Polly Adler Copy Share Image
I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o. — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance. — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
"When in your life were you the most challenged?" I love to hear stories of adversity and how people overcome them. — Graham Shiels Copy Share Image
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story. — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image