Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be… — Ben Edlund Copy Share Image
If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you… — William Campbell Gault Copy Share Image
The credit card business is a success story and that's where Citigroup has put most of its efforts so far. Now Citigroup… — Zhang Xi Copy Share Image
Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding. My love and my life with you will be a never-ending… — M. Christina White Copy Share Image
Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student… — Sandra Fluke Copy Share Image
I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now.… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of… — Ralph W. Moss Copy Share Image
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The books were legends and tales, stories from all over the Realm. These she had devoured voraciously – so voraciously, in fact,… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
In my opinion, visual effects are great when it compliments a good story, and action is great when it compliments a good… — Drew Roy Copy Share Image
Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
We create an image of happiness and success and then we are beholden to it. We tell ourselves stories and sometimes these… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the… — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be on the CBC and to see the management here represents both sides of every story. This is what's… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great… — Jim Toomey Copy Share Image
I always wanted to work at Take A Break magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
I live around dudes all the time so I've heard millions of stories about how they go through a breakup and then… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
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The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
For right now, I'd like to tell stories that I want to tell. I haven't wanted to use someone else's material yet,… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my… — Tina St. John Copy Share Image
Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique… — Leonard Wolf Copy Share Image
In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that… — Connie Britton Copy Share Image
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his… — James Payn Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
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