Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
The secret to 'Year One' is that it's a Jim Gordon story. It's a great Bruce Wayne story, don't get me wrong,… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
'Revolutions' was beyond my wildest dreams. I just really enjoyed it so much visually, the action and then the story and the… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group of angsty teens deal… — Keahu Kahuanui Copy Share Image
“But I have already told the beginning, so right now it's the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the story… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Not every character that you play is going to be somebody that you like or love, but every character that you play… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The… — Heather Anastasiu Copy Share Image
We've always had ups and downs at Pixar, starting with the high we felt doing something we'd never done - 'Toy Story'… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a… — Tim Story Copy Share Image
I, in middle school, started really, really liking country music because it tells a story. It's really dramatic; I'm really dramatic. There's… — Jessica Rothe Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be known for my humor. But then I had an idea for a story, which was… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Why documentary about Iron Sheik? Lotta people, they ask me about my story. They ask me how the legend come from oldest… — The Iron Sheik Copy Share Image
“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to… — John Green Copy Share Image
To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
I look for roles that are a good story for me as an actress and what I think will grow me as… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Once you learn how to work inside the ring - once you learn how to tell a story - then you can… — Scott Hall Copy Share Image
Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily believe that stories need closure. I just believe they need a beginning, middle, and end, but the end doesn't… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Whether it's a film, a television show, an event or a pair of shoes, everything Uninterrupted does comes back to the fundamental… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
I've seen everything from 'Wicked' to 'The Book Of Mormon,' and I don't make any bones of the fact that I love… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I… — Ruth Sawyer Copy Share Image
It's almost like a theater, where I can play a character in every song, 'cause Kamelot songs are very... There's always a… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
'Stargate' has always had this empty hole. When we made the first one, we always intended on doing part two and three,… — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like 'Les Miserables.' The soundtracks are 75 minutes or… — Lindy Booth Copy Share Image
I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during… — Rick Wright Copy Share Image
The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
Without a story, people aren't going to connect to what you're telling, what you have a pain point about. It's so important… — Payal Kadakia Copy Share Image
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
“But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together.… — C. Alexander London Copy Share Image
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