Sometimes I am more interested in the richness of the material with all the stuff we've done which all tell a story… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's… — Mia Freedman Copy Share Image
So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized,… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I was actually really impressed by how many awkward stories we had, ranging from bad haircuts to one guy told us about… — Danny Pudi Copy Share Image
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats:… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
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What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I love touring, I love making records, but eventually all I want...I want to score. I want people to ask me to… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
My advice to women is the same advice I would give to any young man trying to make it in the business… — Ondi Timoner Copy Share Image
“Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want studios that make story-based games to start taking their stories more seriously. And that doesn't mean hiring a big shot… — Neil Druckmann Copy Share Image
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I think you have to do the stories that interest you and hope an audience likes it, rather than doing stories that… — David Shore Copy Share Image
I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic… — Floyd Norman Copy Share Image
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I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I might find that I have a habit of being jealous and comparing myself with other people and riveting my attention on… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking… It is… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
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Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them,… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before wed go to bed, my mom and dad would… — Cameron Mathison Copy Share Image
We have stood up and said continuing growth in the Western world is unjust, inappropriate and potentially destabilising. Having said that, we… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are going to be stories of very young kids that were brought to this country at a very young age who… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
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