Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story,… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of… — Edmund Bourne Copy Share Image
When I looked into the story of Soviet hockey and its players, I realized that it has nothing to do with hockey.… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.'… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When I do watch shows, or projects that I've been a part of, I'm pretty good at watching them objectively. And that's… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story,… — Kim Jee-woon Copy Share Image
The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
The mind knows...that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
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I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories… — Donald T. Regan Copy Share Image
I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It's all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems. — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
We're sending you best wishes And hope your day goes well And that you'll find some memories With stories you can tell… — Janet Horne Copy Share Image
Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to… — Tony Grisoni Copy Share Image
I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
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