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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Look, this isn’t The Mummy. It’s not like a teenaged girl’s diary could resurrect the dead or anything. It’s just the story… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a… — Michelle Richmond 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
“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
When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
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