The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new… — James Frey Copy Share Image
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not… — Patricia Field Copy Share Image
“. . . our stories are what make the difference, and if we can tell them honestly we can hope to help… — Emma Lou Thayne Copy Share Image
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I wanted people to know that I'm not just a guy who does weird videos on the Internet. I actually am a… — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
“The task of calling things by their true names, of telling the truth to the best of our abilities, of knowing how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I've done more than 10,000 interviews, and I've learnt that you've got to do your homework. I bury myself in research beforehand.… — Ray Martin Copy Share Image
So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Where do stories come from?” He asked. “I capture them in a wicker basket as they flutter through the night sky,” I… — Chad B Hanson Copy Share Image
In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Transformational entertainment is a story that both entertains and uplifts you, not simply because you are inspired, but because it reveals the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a… — Sara Pennypacker Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth.… — Nas Copy Share Image
I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What's compelling about the story and what's very honest about the story is that it's very real and it's happening. There are… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Most people view female directors as female only, that we only deal with women's issues and women characters. Although most of my… — Shahad Ameen Copy Share Image
Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be… — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Now, as for this new breed of musicians with their 'ultrasonic' conservatory technique, I say: So What. Tell me a story from… — Woody Shaw Copy Share Image
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
It was a very emotional dinner. Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried… — Lil' Kim Copy Share Image
Even in the Senate, I'd put up any of the stories we did against any pablum Time or Newsweek has put out… — Marc Morano Copy Share Image
The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
"I don't want to lose you, I love you, and...and that's all I've got." As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me.… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us,… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
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