I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it… — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character. — Melanie Laurent Copy Share Image
Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and… — James Maslow Copy Share Image
...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I was in Boy Scouts, back in the day, we'd tell stories around the campfire. That's why I love movies. It's… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
I am not Lyme disease, that's not who I am, I'm still a feminist artist, but this is a part of my… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“I held Angie Luna in that room for hours, and I remember the different times we made love like epochs in a… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
I know from my own experience as a parent that parents probably teach most powerfully not through their words but through their… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up… — Jeffery Taylor Copy Share Image
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
I have done a pretty good job of partitioning my life digitally, posting utterances and stories that I'm happy to share with… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
“Every story has four parts - the beginning, the middle, the almost ending, and the true ending.” — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it. — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights. — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into… — Bill W Copy Share Image
I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down -… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts. — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to.… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
