The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories. — George Mackay Brown Copy Share Image
There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them. — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams. — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Whether a project is large or small, it doesn't matter much to me as long as I feel I can serve the… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from… — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It's always scary making a film as I never set anything up or ask anyone to do anything, so I worry that… — Kim Longinotto Copy Share Image
We really did it write it for the story but once you get into production, once you start doing this process certain… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make… — Ronny Cox Copy Share Image
What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring,… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I just really like the characte [Jasper Hale], and I love the story [Twiglight], I think it's a very strong character and… — Jackson Rathbone Copy Share Image
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William,… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been… — Bob Hoover Copy Share Image
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I would love to do Tammi Terrell's story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival. — Wendy Raquel Robinson Copy Share Image
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors. — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to… — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1. — Craig Reucassel Copy Share Image
I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them. — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about… — Peter Segal Copy Share Image
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice. — Shami Chakrabarti Copy Share Image
“But the stories had made him different, too. They had shaped his appetite, his moral prejudices, who he was.” — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image