Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in… — Joe Locke Copy Share Image
Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story...your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
If more men would see a story of what it was like to be pregnant, and how it felt to be in… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably,… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I think you have to do the stories that interest you and hope an audience likes it, rather than doing stories that… — David Shore Copy Share Image
I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic… — Floyd Norman Copy Share Image
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I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story,… — Lee Daniels Copy Share Image
I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I think one thing that always attracted me to movies was the personalities. I went to movies not because the stories necessarily… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of Guillermo del Toro, 'Pan's Labryinth' blew me away. The stories and the worlds that he's… — Robin Atkin Downes Copy Share Image
The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share Image
Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his,… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
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I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an… — Steve Dildarian Copy Share Image
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process.… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
Our eyes are not viewers, they're also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
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