We always knew that we wanted to keep Atlantis off for a while and when it did show up, to make it… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it… — Nas Copy Share Image
I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do -… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you're following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I'd like… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story.… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life.… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working.… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I met Laura Morton through a friend who had hired her to help her write her own story. Though Laura is chock-full… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of… — Jane Heller Copy Share Image
But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Who can I marry? Where can I live? What kind of career can I achieve? These are just some of the stories… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual… — Jane Cleland Copy Share Image
The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century… — Geza Vermes Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There were stories coming out of Thailand that slave labor was being used to catch and process the seafood we eat. They… — Lourdes Garcia-Navarro Copy Share Image
I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan,… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
![“I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it because you can listen and watch the whole story. I would love to see lots of albums [become films.]” quote by Nas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cc/nas-650_albums_i-think-most-albums-deserve-a-documentar_653859.png)
![“I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting stuff together. I think there are more stories about women of color [and] older women. But it is slim pickings.” quote by Susan Sarandon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/095/susan-sarandon-2799_actresses_i-am-optimistic-i-think-that-there-are-a_2999481.jpg)
![“[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.” quote by Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/anton-chekhov-298_absence_six-principles-that-make-for-a-good-stor_663582.jpg)
