When I originally sold X-Men it was because I knew there was 40 years of stories. That was the point! Not only… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
“This was not what we wanted to hear that morning. Adventures inspire, tall tales excite, and fantasies stir the imagination, but sad… — J. W. Lord Copy Share Image
I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him… — Curt Young Copy Share Image
An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
He'd once heard a story about a monastery on the top of some mountain in Japan or somewhere. After a long trek… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
There are multiple shows of record about a late-transitioning patriarch and how the kids are affected, and there are multiple narratives. That… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get… — Raul Garcia Copy Share Image
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters;… — Stirling Silliphant Copy Share Image
I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
Lucy Lawless presented a couple of the awards. And, when I walked off the stage with her after one of them, she… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in… — Frederick Schiller Faust Copy Share Image
I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
A lot of times I'll make films that are mostly character-driven films - stories that involve people. Like, I make the joke:… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra,… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more… — Keith Briffa Copy Share Image
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
