Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story.… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Here's the story: 25 years ago, I had my lips injected with silicone. Stupid thing to do at 24. I saw 'Beaches.'… — Lisa Rinna Copy Share Image
The stories circulating that Kanye West's laptop has been stolen are completely false. His laptop has never been out of his possession.… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live… — Arthur Carhart Copy Share Image
My true inspirations are my kids and my husband. I'm also inspired by stories of my extended family, friends, and even strangers… — Trista Sutter Copy Share Image
We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in… — Moran Atias Copy Share Image
The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist?… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
'Jessica Jones' is its own animal, I think each one of these series is its own animal. There is some connective tissue,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“We all spin stories. That's what we do. We want people to see certain things about us and not others. What matters… — Maya Lang Copy Share Image
The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image