People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they… — Ron Shelton Copy Share Image
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women,… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
I would love to work with Ron Howard. I think he is brilliant. I love the stories that he chooses. Theyre always… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It was a very, very intense and long casting process [for The Killing] because we really had to find the right people… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Because I have a heart for God I also have a heart for women. As I hear their stories, I realize so… — Jill Briscoe Copy Share Image
I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and… — Alexandra Sokoloff Copy Share Image
The Dain Curse [Tom Fink] was a great job. I was in New York, and I was young - I think I'm… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
I just really like the characte [Jasper Hale], and I love the story [Twiglight], I think it's a very strong character and… — Jackson Rathbone Copy Share Image
Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena… — Bill James Copy Share Image
I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so… — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
I've been thinking of a story from the Old Testament: Moses stood all day and all night with outstretched arms, praying to… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one… — Frank B. Salisbury Copy Share Image
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William,… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
If you're a real hip-hop fan and a real street music fan, and you just love good music, you're gonna play it… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
There's always a villain in every book, in every movie. In every story you have the hero and what he wants, and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really… — Gabrielle Aplin Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
![“It was a very, very intense and long casting process [for The Killing] because we really had to find the right people who could carry the weight of this story, who had the chops and who had the spirit, where they could bring in so much of their own selves to these characters. So, the casting…” quote by Veena Sud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85a/veena-sud-27264_casting_it-was-a-very-very-intense-and-long-cast_1344580.jpg)
![“The Dain Curse [Tom Fink] was a great job. I was in New York, and I was young - I think I'm 28 years old in that - and I got to work with James Coburn and Jean Simmons and Jason Miller. Plus, it was a Dashiell Hammett story, and I had a great character. It was fantastic to shoot.” quote by Brent Spiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b87/brent-spiner-2999_character_the-dain-curse-tom-fink-was-a-great-job_2418179.png)
![“I just really like the characte [Jasper Hale], and I love the story [Twiglight], I think it's a very strong character and I respect him. It's interesting; I respect the character that I play. I don't understand it, but I do. That's a good thing. I think so, I think so. I never felt like that…” quote by Jackson Rathbone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/293/jackson-rathbone-25920_character_i-just-really-like-the-characte-jasper-h_2351302.jpg)
![“There's always a villain in every book, in every movie. In every story you have the hero and what he wants, and that is the MacGuffin. The whole thing is about who's gonna get the MacGuffin. This piece that this Ace of Spades blog wrote is that's how the media covers [Barack] Obama, and I have…” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e43/rush-limbaugh-28_aces_there-s-always-a-villain-in-every-book-i_181419.jpg)
![“...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You…” quote by Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2d/bruce-springsteen-546_believe_it-s-all-sort-of-dreams-and-it-s-all-ill_2765822.jpg)
