I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find… — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open… — Brian Littrell Copy Share Image
You hear terrible stories because there'll be a story about some terrible kid, but most of the kids I work with are… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Sarah Jane Smith was everybody's hero when I was younger, and as brave and funny and brilliant as people only ever are… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Piper reads the scripts, and we email a lot. Most of her comments are on the more technical side, like "This wouldn't… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
I told my mom I was going to do a movie about a son who hears a story about his mom and… — Dan Fogelman Copy Share Image
I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and coaching my partners on… — Derek Hough Copy Share Image
Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery… — Michaela Angela Davis Copy Share Image
In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
I think my vision's blurred," he murmurred. SHe responded with a hesitant laugh. "If that's all that happened, you're a heck of… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up,… — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all… — Brendan Fletcher Copy Share Image
It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
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