“People ask me all the time, "Where do your ideas come from?" So, to clear up this question...I keep my ideas inside… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I enjoy doing autograph sessions because I'm a people-watcher. I'm the guy in the airport who likes to just sit and watch… — Joey Logano Copy Share Image
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my… — Geena Rocero Copy Share Image
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Just the idea that someone is married and they've got a kid, and he reports for work one morning and his boss… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Internet is going to have a bigger impact on content creators than the television ever had. The reason why that's the… — Jason Kilar Copy Share Image
In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're… — John Corbett Copy Share Image
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic… Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at… — M. G. Vassanji Copy Share Image
I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want… — Jorge Garcia Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
I think it can be incredibly powerful for a teen to be able to put their story out there for others to… — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
MTV has always given artists a platform to get their stories and music out to their fans and this series reveals the… — T.I Copy Share Image
I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
I tell the songwriter's story. When I read people's lyrics, I'm so amazed. I want to tell this story and make it… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
The story of Kal-El is actually a great story about adoption. He is an alien who has embraced his human side. As… — Charles Roven Copy Share Image
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
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