My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how… — Catherine McCormack Copy Share Image
Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all… — Scott Rudin Copy Share Image
There's a tale in the Caballa that suggests that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that upon seeing it (or him,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.” I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can… — Rachel DeWoskin Copy Share Image
IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high.… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle… — Stefan Petrucha Copy Share Image
Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Of course, I still saw Edward at school, because there wasn't anything Charlie [her dad] could do about that. And then, Edward… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Some of the justifiable critiques has been by - been so successful in telling this story, you know, there's a danger of… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The early evangelists recognized they could help the Jesus story make sense if Jesus was seen as someone who was chosen to… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone has a belief system in his or her mind, a story about the way they think the world actually is, even… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
Life beats up on everyone from time to time. If you don't want to reach out to a trusted friend or professional,… — Meera Lester Copy Share Image
I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing.… — Art Donovan Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story, and the story changes, and the more I can root into the truth of things - it's so… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
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![“Some of the justifiable critiques has been by - been so successful in telling this story, you know, there's a danger of saying, oh, well, you know, we don't need to worry about this because that's absolutely not the case. What [Hans] Rosling is doing is showing us an overall global trend, which in…” quote by Keith Devlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dd/keith-devlin-19829_bad-thing_some-of-the-justifiable-critiques-has-be_763450.jpg)
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