The story of The Doors is one of the most compelling in the history of American rock music; three hugely talented musicians… — Tom DiCillo Copy Share Image
“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
So many of the great detectives that we see on television now owe their origins to Sherlock Holmes. What was very exciting… — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story.… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I begin with understanding the intentions of the story. That helps me to zero in. Then I gather research for each individual… — Ruth E. Carter Copy Share Image
One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Having a son with a disability helps makes Walter White a more sympathetic character. There's no story line that shows Walt Jr.… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“[A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that… — Amina Mama Copy Share Image
“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I have always been a teller of stories. When I was a young girl, my mother carried me out of a grocery… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents,… — Victoria Laurie Copy Share Image
Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places… — William Safire Copy Share Image
When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
I can't become naked for everybody. It's never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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![“It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John [Hurt] is telling me the story as he's sitting in that witness chair, and they're putting the final touches of makeup on. And he goes, "Hold on a second," to stop his story…” quote by Judd Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ad/judd-nelson-4498_actors_it-s-like-they-talk-about-how-american-a_470630.jpg)
![“[A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know the story, the real story. And it is simple and cruel and true and it should make us laugh, it should make us die laughing. But we only know how to cry, the only thing we do…” quote by Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/roberto-bola-o-725_real-story_a-nd-the-wizened-youth-trembles-more-and_1582042.jpg)
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