To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies,… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
With the new game I'm going to be involved from the ground up. I have had story input and the whole thing… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Im drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. Im not saying… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark… — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get,… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“The will to truth is enshrined in the mind. It is undeniable, inescapable, mutable only if one’s humanity itself is rejected, itself… — Jeffrey Panzer Copy Share Image
When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I want to live for my truth, my reality, what is important to me and what I’m passionate about. I love acting,… — Mackenzie Phillips Copy Share Image
For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling… — Danny Pino Copy Share Image
I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my… — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having… — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where… — Luke Wilson Copy Share Image
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives,… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was,… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
