We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
This business can be very frustrating but there is success story after success story of people who take the bull by the… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more. — Megan Alexander Copy Share Image
Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
This is my favorite story of the week. The Republican National Committee is in trouble after spending nearly $2,000 at a bondage… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I… — Donald Davis Copy Share Image
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Stories make ideas and concepts come alive and by shifting the action to another world and another time, they help us step… — Prakah Iyer Copy Share Image
If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, 'Aren't I clever?' .. If a story… — Dave Gorman Copy Share Image
I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular… — James Lafferty Copy Share Image
I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Things are going to happen whether you are there or not, you still need someone to push the button on the camera… — Neil Berkeley Copy Share Image
I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
We, the women and men of the Church, we are in the middle of a love story: each of us is a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case… — Debra Doyle Copy Share Image