How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties,… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like "yeah he's a cute little kid" but I started, little… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes. — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would… — William Hudson O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write.… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards.… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I like to count myself as someone who doesn't follow that stuff and someone who's just trying to invent stories and characters… — Scot Armstrong Copy Share Image
Plausible development, building from what we know about what really did go on, and a whacking good story… Surrounded by Enemies delivers… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives.… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More… — Matt Drudge Copy Share Image
There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles,… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller,… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I think it's very interesting how an American network chooses to tell this story. We don't name one country the good guy… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image
“...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that every light had a story-no, every light… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a… — Suzy Bogguss Copy Share Image
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