Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to… — David Ives Copy Share Image
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Technology isn't a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you're cheating… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
If there was a story about boys playing punk I don't think I would've made it, because it would just be the… — Lukas Moodysson Copy Share Image
I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus can a real authentic struggle take place. The encounter with Christ does… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product.… — Carson Daly Copy Share Image
Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it… — John Facenda Copy Share Image
When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
It's the obvious thing to say but artists want to be able to tell all kinds of stories and tear down every… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love.… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be under the microscope every moment of every day. Everything that leaves your mouth becomes this sensationalized… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In workshopping short stories I learned how to get character down, and how to work with ratios of literal to fantastic to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that moment. 'The Avengers'… — Jeffrey Bell Copy Share Image
Life is funny. Life isn’t categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it?So I don’t know why they try to categorize everything. It… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Everyone in Hollywood wanted a role in this movie. Everyone wanted to have a part in it. I feel so lucky that… — Alexander Ludwig Copy Share Image
Women's stories are valid, and they need to be developed in a way that appeals to a broader audience. And what is… — Christina Cox Copy Share Image
I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Let's use that to make as interesting and different and unique a story as possible and not just stay with the same… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all.… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story.… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
