I don't know about making a passionate love story, even if it's appealing for an audience to see a husband and wife… — Sandra Dee Copy Share Image
I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace, it can be complicated in terms of the story,… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry 'bout the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story –… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My stories are known for featuring fun, fearless Cosmopolitan-type heroines as well as delicious, dangerous heroes synonymous with Harlequin. Afterburn and Aftershock… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The hip-hop that I really connected with was Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube, and N.W.A. That late '80s and early '90s era.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together.… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it's around, certainly on commercial television, the less… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps,… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
“In the strange dreams of man, there are stories that are unknowingly being built by them. Mine are among the billions that… — Brandon Benevides Copy Share Image
You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what… — Linda Conrad Copy Share Image
I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Politico reports, multiple advisers to the Right To Rise super Pac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people… — Joe Grant Copy Share Image
Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you.… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
“I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to… — Noel Tichy Copy Share Image
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
What does your attitude proclaim to the world about you today? It is never to late to change your story, start by… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
Pirates of the Caribbean, move over! Make room for a crew of mouse-privateers who will capture your hearts and stop your breath… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain… — James Franco Copy Share Image
And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image