I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The process of radical acceptance is to accept that a story has appeared in the mind, and then deepen the attention to… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible.… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
“Dinner was a family affair. And oh, how she enjoyed it! Who knew there was so much to talk about each day?… — Jen Calonita Copy Share Image
I love The End of the Batman story. I have my original copy, the hardcover, at my house from when I was… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I know if I told you what God looked like and felt like then I'd be telling you a story. I just… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
Let's face it, we're all clones nowadays. We've all got the same archives, we've all got the same Hyundai, we've all got… — Rob Brown Copy Share Image
If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to… — Michael Isikoff Copy Share Image
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial.… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People… — Owen Hart Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that… — Alex Toth Copy Share Image
In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said… — Mary Hart Copy Share Image
The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer… — Ben Lloyd-Hughes Copy Share Image
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
