I'm trying to tell the story of the evolution of America. Each biography is a life in time, and I can see… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harry Potter' and have it… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
I kind of was oversaturated in the world of 'West Side Story' and almost didn't send in an audition tape because I… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
The best piece of life advice I've ever been given is to not take every no to heart - especially with my… — Lexi Underwood Copy Share Image
I think to truly not know what to expect out of the story - to create a world where nothing is guaranteed… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth. — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
I've DP'd so many films for first-time directors, and I know the trauma, the heartbreak, the vulnerability, how much you have to… — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story. — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told. — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject. — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
For me, the first thing is script. When I heard 'Mom''s script, it really touched me and moved me. I felt really… — Sridevi Copy Share Image
Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form. — Noma Dumezweni Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out,' because in doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews over the past six… — Harry Knowles Copy Share Image
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I would love, love, love to do a comedy like 'Gentleman's Guide,' something farcical and fast-paced, but I also want to do… — Joshua Henry Copy Share Image
The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
“A story is nothing more than a reproduction of the order of the world on a purely verbal scale. A replica of… — Ricardo Piglia Copy Share Image
Being on 'Pose' for me has now allowed me to realize how important my culture is. It's made me realize how important… — Dominique Jackson Copy Share Image
I read James Joyce's short story 'The Dead,' and I love that movie for many reasons. It was the last film I… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by Madam Walker's ability to use her money for political causes. I find her story so inspires people… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer,… — Andre Balazs Copy Share Image
“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that… — Beth Neff Copy Share Image
I respect my competitors, you know, I get respect back from them. I respect people out there who pay for their tickets… — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
My childhood friends and I would have been featured in 'The Achievers: The Story of the Big Lebowski Fans,' but I never… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
