Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented,… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great… — Don Bluth Copy Share Image
“That’s the nature of stories. No one ever gets to know the entire thing. We just get to know the parts we… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies… — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to… — William Devane Copy Share Image
Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world… — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The actors come in and they make characters their own and so Patrick and I have never been the kind to think… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter that there… — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The longest-serving Republican Senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, found guilty just a few hours ago on all charges in his corruption trial. Do… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that… — Bill Williams Copy Share Image
The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by… — John Verdon Copy Share Image
I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
It's too bad for us "literary" enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless -- pictures tell any story more effectively than words .… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of… — Adam Rayner Copy Share Image
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them,… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's… — Shawn Ashmore Copy Share Image
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story.… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
