The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters. — George Jackson Copy Share Image
I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth. — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
“The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.” — John Crowley Copy Share Image
My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
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