I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist.… — Sarah Sutton Copy Share Image
I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's… — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
Admittedly, the masturbation story is just a "Hey, this is one of my best-of's, I'll throw it in the special." But the… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me.… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers,… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
We write for actors and even down to the smallest character in the film, they all have their moment. You take that… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
Vera said: “Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?” So I told her why. Because if I… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Real crime-beat investigative journalism does seem to be really dwindling, especially in this age with everything being centered around iPhones. Everyone's a… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
Let someone else take a crack at [your story]. Sometimes, even after time has passed, we're just too close to the thing.… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine… — Thomas Langmann Copy Share Image
I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods… — Michael Boatman Copy Share Image
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“...there’s seldom one event that makes a person a certain way, it’s the numerous bumps and bruises and stories of personal triumph… — L.M. Adams Copy Share Image
Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to… — Susan Patron Copy Share Image
As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function… — Jeffrey Jones Copy Share Image
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a… — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together,… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary… — Laozi Copy Share Image
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