There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
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“Storytelling is an ancient art. The lucent vibes of stories express what we cannot articulate directly. When we hear someone’s story, we… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
[There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The technology certainly changes. I think, in terms of making films, that's been the biggest change. But many things stay the same.… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
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We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to… — James Keller Copy Share Image
. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye… — John Green Copy Share Image
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy… — Velcrow Ripper Copy Share Image
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Ouch! And Marino goes down quicker than his Boonesfarm-infused sister in the back of my '68 Cutlass on our first date after… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love… — Eric Carr Copy Share Image
Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
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