I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what… — Linda Conrad Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“In the strange dreams of man, there are stories that are unknowingly being built by them. Mine are among the billions that… — Brandon Benevides Copy Share Image
All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps,… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it's around, certainly on commercial television, the less… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining [1980]. Nicholson was saying that, as… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell… — Bruce Bruce Copy Share Image
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems”… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“What I want to tell you as you read these stories is that I both found and lost God a hundred times… — Ashley Mae Hoiland Copy Share Image
“Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
In the country field, we’re brought up in spiritual homes, we’re taught to “judge not lest you be judged,” and it’s always… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain… — James Franco Copy Share Image
First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Pirates of the Caribbean, move over! Make room for a crew of mouse-privateers who will capture your hearts and stop your breath… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
What does your attitude proclaim to the world about you today? It is never to late to change your story, start by… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to… — Noel Tichy Copy Share Image
Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you.… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
“I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people… — Joe Grant Copy Share Image
Politico reports, multiple advisers to the Right To Rise super Pac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
God has stepped in at the last minute more than once in history (remember Moses at the Red Sea?). And He can… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
![“I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining [1980]. Nicholson was saying that, as an actor, you always want to try to make things real. And believable. When he was working with Kubrick, he finished a take and said, "I feel like that was real."…” quote by Owen Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3b/owen-wilson-10973_actors_i-remember-hearing-a-good-story-about-ja_3067132.jpg)
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