“We create stories to help us shape a chaotic world, to navigate inequities of power, to accept our lack of control over… — Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never… — Jack Kelley Copy Share Image
I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change… — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire… — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Stories make ideas and concepts come alive and by shifting the action to another world and another time, they help us step… — Prakah Iyer Copy Share Image
If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, 'Aren't I clever?' .. If a story… — Dave Gorman Copy Share Image
I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman.… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
I think the world should be represented on television and for the longest its been limited. Ethnic stories specifically need variety in… — Aeriel Miranda Copy Share Image
Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about… — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I… — Judith Moore Copy Share Image
People understand when I talk about my son not listening, or issues at home or his real dad coming back into the… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A… — Raffaella Barker Copy Share Image
I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting,… — Richard Helms Copy Share Image
Stories of friendship are very interesting to me. Artificial families are something I like to explore. Whether it's a bunch of guys… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much… — Thomas Langmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
