I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event,… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we… — Colm Meaney Copy Share Image
I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Sometimes a story idea will come to me, and suddenly I've figured out the whole thing, and I feel like I'm collaborating… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother… — George Best Copy Share Image
Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to… — John Green Copy Share Image
I hate being too serious about anything. If I'm with my friend, I want to be having fun with him or her.… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Tolkien was such a brilliant writer in so many ways. He was truly an inspiration. Many people don't realize just how much… — Raymond Buckland Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it… — Dermot Mulroney Copy Share Image
For me, my favourite actresses are like Charlotte Rampling or Gena Rowlands... people who have always stepped outside of the restraints of… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are… — Nancy Kates Copy Share Image
She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and… — John Cena Copy Share Image
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I was much more into romance as a teenager and it's been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I've got a New Zealand film coming out here called Out of the Blue. It's a very heavy story, and it's the… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I just wasn't ready for his stories. They'd breed with the others I'd heard and hatch new monsters, because there was no… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed,… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that… — John Baird Copy Share Image