I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
Especially with 'Be Alright,' that's about a bunch of relationships and some people that I'd never even met, there was some stories… — Dean Lewis Copy Share Image
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded.… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I've done more than 10,000 interviews, and I've learnt that you've got to do your homework. I bury myself in research beforehand.… — Ray Martin Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
I think you can tilt too far to the side of the story where the message is just simply entertainment. So I… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many… — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others… — Malcolm D. Lee Copy Share Image
My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have… — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories… — Harpo Marx Copy Share Image
So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over.… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
We ask everybody to help us to change the world, but we are not talking about our planet Earth; we are talking… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition… — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Musicals and horror films can be very non-verbal and very pure cinema with movement. The camera is justified in being a character.… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster:… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is -… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
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