There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching. — William Landay Copy Share Image
The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story. — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales. — Ayshay Copy Share Image
The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to… — Larry King Copy Share Image
We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories?… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band… — Tommy Bolin Copy Share Image
I think that 'Room 104' offered us an organic opportunity to tell all kinds of stories with all kinds of protagonists. — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody. — Sabrina Carpenter Copy Share Image
Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background, — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth. — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made. — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories. — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
