I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story.… — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting… — Matthew Bonifacio Copy Share Image
The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable,… — Catherine Crier Copy Share Image
I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
His mother?" Gracie couldn't believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to be his mother. And much too respectable. "But you're… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) stories were great, for one. The thing that makes him a remarkable character is how he can… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The story of the entrepreneur... is the story of forward progress, of pursuing one's dreams and goals no matter how outlandish they… — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I love what I call "re-imagining," where I throw everything up in the air and let it fall in a different way.… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death,… — Jud Wilhite Copy Share Image
“I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in… — Virgil Copy Share Image
I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
When it was time to talk about Warcraft we took our time, we knew what the story was going to be, we… — Thomas Tull Copy Share Image
It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me… — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
I've heard stories about movies that are really maybe difficult and really dramatic and good, but they are being sold as romantic… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story,… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of tough stories over the years. I've done a lot of profiles over the years that have not… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se,… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story… — Sally Kellerman Copy Share Image
There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed… — Robert Cowley Copy Share Image
“I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things… — Martha M Moravec Copy Share Image
