My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
I came to love the rhythm of the sound effects and the whole experience of listening to a story. I made a… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace… — Steve House Copy Share Image
I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one,… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for… — Dino De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures -… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The story of the gospel is so much better than the legal model suggests. It tells us that we are created as… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by… — Larry Diamond Copy Share Image
My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Story collectors tend to be superstitious. Knock on wood, black cats, four leaf clovers... that sort of thing. After all, superstitions are… — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along.… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance… — Seth Gabel Copy Share Image
The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
The story is framed around [avid Petraeus] resignation. So many headlines that followed talked about his ruined career. They completely ignore the… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't therefore know how to write for the big papers. It must be kids - students - and retired people. And… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
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