I've learned there is a void in adult stories across the land. Hollywood, whatever that is anymore, is losing their ability to… — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have… — Vincent Piazza Copy Share Image
And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being politicians, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother's battle with cancer. Harry Reid talked about… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your… — Mani S. Sivasubramanian Copy Share Image
The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who,… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about… — Hazel Rochman Copy Share Image
I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if… — Ned Kelly Copy Share Image
You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which… — John Frankenheimer Copy Share Image
A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
From Ronan's room, he heard Noah's laugh. He and Ronan were throwing various objects from the second-story window to the parking low… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material, I mean so many books and so much stuff about what they… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
Don't be constantly selling and shilling. Figure out how you can help others, tell them stories, and share openly everything you know… — C.C. Chapman Copy Share Image
I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over time the story of the memory loses its power.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to… — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for what's something that Bradley Whitford's character can say that is completely outrageous and completely wrong, but in a… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates… — Todd Lieberman Copy Share Image
There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
I love talking to people and hearing their stories. Everyone's got their own story to tell, and when you sit down with… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
