I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost… — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I do a lot of work in travel and tourism, and I think this story is in the book. This woman is… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I think people are a mixture of everything. I like desperate characters because they do things that most of us normally wouldn't… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very loving but very broken family, and I suppose that's why I'm drawn to telling stories about… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
This is going to sound strange, but I really feel I know Roland very well. In Wizard and Glass, I got to… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
When we feel pressured to have achieved certain things by a particular age, it could ultimately hinder us. It's great to have… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
“We think that history is created in the big things, in the big events, but history is also created in the small… — Sharanya Haridas Copy Share Image
We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
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The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love… — Vito Russo Copy Share Image
The graphic novel? I love comics and so, yes. I don't think we talked about that. We weren't influenced necessarily by graphic… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things I love about acting and one of the things I love the most is, here you… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I sort of was inspired by 'Friday Night Lights,' where it was a very different show, but similar in that they were… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between good/new and bad/old. The X-Men are… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work.… — Patricia Rozema Copy Share Image
"Tabernacle" was probably the easiest song I'd ever wrote because all I really had to do was rhyme the words since the… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more… — James Carafano Copy Share Image
Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
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