When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew… — Earl Monroe Copy Share Image
I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do. — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by… — Larry Diamond Copy Share Image
My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing… — Paul O. Zelinsky Copy Share Image
The story of the gospel is so much better than the legal model suggests. It tells us that we are created as… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
“Great stories are not the ones which have great people in them. Great stories are the ones which have ordinary people, willing… — Priyanka singh Copy Share Image
That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and… — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd -… — Bill Kurtis Copy Share Image
Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing… — Charlie McDermott Copy Share Image
I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Grover: It’s a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that’s… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from… — Priscilla Presley Copy Share Image
Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
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