The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories,… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Funny story: I was hanging out with Adam Shankman for Samantha Ronson's birthday, and Lance Bass was there. I don't really know… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch,… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
I think if the content is good and the content is interesting, the at home viewer will watch it for as long… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
People come, people go theyll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
When we were trying to get 'Jersey Boys' off the ground, I'd get, 'The Four Seasons? Who's going to care? There's the… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
“No,” said Bran. “I haven’t. And if I have it doesn’t matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Almost no one as I think most leadership books are a joke. They are, as I note in Leadership BS, frequently based… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It really ups your production value when you have one person that you can use as your avatar through a story, but… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I hope I'll have the opportunity to debate how we reform and update our immigration system. I will relate my own story… — Ami Bera Copy Share Image
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also… — Kriti Sanon Copy Share Image
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He's the coolest.… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image