Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories. — Robert Newton Peck Copy Share Image
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that… — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film. — Judy Greer Copy Share Image
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I… — Kim Ji-woon Copy Share Image
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of… — Cynthia Tucker Copy Share Image
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
Catholic fiction of the type we're publishing is stories that we know faithful Catholics will enjoy - stories they can escape with,… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry,… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I've always been jealous of people who can tell stories really well in a room with a bunch of people. I've never… — Brendan Benson Copy Share Image
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. — George Barr McCutcheon Copy Share Image
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