I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
“Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story. It's all about putting my time in and… — Kevin Durand Copy Share Image
Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We… — William Landay Copy Share Image
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand Copy Share Image
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality.… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The biggest thing I worry about is the unsubstantiated story. You have to tell the people what you know -- and acknowledge… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I had an eye-opening experience in Baghdad at the end of 2004 and I thought that the story of these guys who… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter. — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Now, I think of my writing as having two foundations: entertainment and meaning. The meaning portion is really me trying to answer… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a… — Melissa Peterman Copy Share Image
![“I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I…” quote by George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4a/george-sand-1753_chiefs_i-loved-fairy-stories-so-and-my-mother-w_1388127.jpg)
