The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The thing is that Warcraft has so much story available to it. For the fans, there are some key stories they really… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent… — John Muir Copy Share Image
A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale:… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There's nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about our… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead--black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see… — Mary Hart Copy Share Image
Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it… — Nas Copy Share Image
I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do -… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We always knew that we wanted to keep Atlantis off for a while and when it did show up, to make it… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you're following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I'd like… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I met Laura Morton through a friend who had hired her to help her write her own story. Though Laura is chock-full… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working.… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of… — Jane Heller Copy Share Image
I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
![“He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead--black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman had hers together. Pretty much the story of the human race in sign language.” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/909/stephen-king-13_bathroom_he-pointed-toward-the-silhouettes-on-the_78620.jpg)
![“I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"” quote by Steven Soderbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/578/steven-soderbergh-2075_big-screen_i-ve-never-been-a-snob-it-movie-is-just_244324.jpg)
![“I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it because you can listen and watch the whole story. I would love to see lots of albums [become films.]” quote by Nas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cc/nas-650_albums_i-think-most-albums-deserve-a-documentar_653859.png)
![“I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting stuff together. I think there are more stories about women of color [and] older women. But it is slim pickings.” quote by Susan Sarandon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/095/susan-sarandon-2799_actresses_i-am-optimistic-i-think-that-there-are-a_2999481.jpg)
