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CHRIS ALLSBURG I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa...
DEBORAH EISENBERG![]()
But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.'
'Yes...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN![]()
It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never t...
ISAAC ASIMOV![]()
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and g...
STEVEN SPIELBERG![]()
The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story yo...
MALCOLM LOWRY If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story.
DAVID GRANN![]()
I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that...
CECELIA AHERN![]()
[Its nearest rival, I discovered, is The Last Question by science fiction maestro Isaac Asimov. This...
ISAAC ASIMOV Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?
T.C. BOYLE![]()
I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a s...
DAVID COOK![]()
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and gov...
BARRY EISLER We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking...
PHIL FOGLIO I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. ...
HAKAN NESSER![]()
A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like thro...
CHINA MIéVILLE![]()
I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It help...
QUVENZHANE WALLIS If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it'...
CLARE VANDERPOOL![]()
To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll ...
JOSEPH BRUCHAC For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the mo...
GILBERT HERNANDEZ![]()
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformat...
DONALD MILLER David was a great listener. I would throw out a story here, a story there.
ARTIE PASQUALE![]()
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then ...
RICHARD PRICE My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified...
KATE ADIE Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES![]()
I can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like...
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discov...
ROBERT MORGAN![]()
We decided it needed to be more grounded. If people are not involved with the story, I don't think a...
STEVE CARELL When something like personal genomics or synthetic biology suddenly appears - it seems to suddenly a...
GEORGE M. CHURCH I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if...
ELENA ANAYA A little bit surprised I guess, I don't really expect that. But I think when it all comes out - I do...
STEVE YZERMAN I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how t...
GARTH DAVIS I can already see exactly what this story ... is going to look like. It's going to be written by a b...
IAN MICHAELS![]()
I don't think my books would've have been as successful as they are if the readers didn't think they...
STEPHEN KING It was an idea, I thought, that could almost be written as a helping tool. People seemed to like the...
FLORENCE SEIDELMAN Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE![]()
I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are suppo...
JODI PICOULT These houses were flooded up to about the second story, if they had a second story, so everything wa...
KEATON THOMAS![]()
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I beco...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing a...
JOHN DARNIELLE![]()
It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally...
AARTI SEQUEIRA This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS I hope it's snowing. I think that will be cool for some reason. If there was some crazy snowstorm, i...
ADAM BURISH![]()
Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer star...
NEIL GAIMAN As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out what's in it.
KELIS![]()
I thought this was a great story about a winner who starts losing, ... And if you're a winner, what ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorte...
JACQUELINE WOODSON![]()
My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see...
AVI![]()
...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that eve...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one sto...
MICHAEL WINTER![]()
When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sente...
DANIEL EHRENHAFT Kathleen Kelly: Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on...
YOU'VE GOT MAIL![]()
It seems to be the second coming for Fox, ... They're throwing everything into this thing. And it's ...
DOMINIC PURCELL![]()
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fair...
NANCY WERLIN![]()
The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in ...
P.G. WODEHOUSE![]()
Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's g...
DAVID L. WOLPER I love the story of how my parents met because it seems very 1950s Brooklyn. They met on a brownston...
JANE KRAKOWSKI It's like lawn darts out there. It almost seems like you can birdie every hole. I don't know if I'll...
JIM MCGOVERN![]()
When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you r...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON![]()
If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending...
But if it's a story, even i...
MARGARET ATWOOD Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
NICK FLYNN I worked over the last year and a half with a Hollywood screenwriter named Mark Shepherd. He develop...
GEOFF TATE![]()
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time...
EDITH WHARTON![]()
I had seven minutes permanently burned out of my memory (when the van hit). I did get one back of th...
STEPHEN KING In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN![]()
Although it seems to be a ghetto movie, it very quickly becomes a much more intimate story, the stor...
GAVIN HOOD![]()
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on...
WALLY SCHIRRA It was not written as a personal therapy. We are professionals. We have a cause and a point of view ...
DANIEL COHEN For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cut...
DEBORAH EISENBERG Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON![]()
Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines ...
DEAN KOONTZ I would like to think so. The fact if you had all your guys out there and you're healthy. If you are...
CARLOS DELGADO![]()
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd ...
BABE RUTH![]()
On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are,...
JIM RASH Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story be...
CHRIS WOODING![]()
We could have been the greatest love story ever told.
If only you'd stayed in character.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT![]()
Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noi...
STEVEN SPIELBERG It's really frustrating. It almost seems personal because I had money and things in the car that wer...
ERIC THOMPSON The thing about great teams is if you don't finish the story, it ain't going to be a story that's go...
ALAN ZEMAITIS I think (humor) just kind of comes to me naturally. It just seems like kind of the way I like to do ...
ADAM CARROLL I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out th...
KIRSTEN PROUT![]()
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working wit...
MANUEL PUIG Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know some...
JOHN ELDREDGE As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what any...
DAMON LINDELOF![]()
I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where...
LOIS LOWRY They bring a new story out every time I see them. But now I have the best story of all.
AUSTIN PEEBLES![]()
Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not...
WERNER HERZOG![]()
Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.
ROBERT M. DRAKE Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work ...
CAROL WINDLEY In humanity, each individual's story was written well before time. It cannot be manipulated, it cann...
MARK CRANE I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take t...
CURTIS JACKSON![]()
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new...
NEIL GAIMAN It's hard to figure out what motivates people and it seems like a lot of high school sports, if you ...
HOLLY HARRIS![]()
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if ...
BABE RUTH True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, th...
JANE LINDSKOLD
CHRIS ALLSBURG I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa...
DEBORAH EISENBERG
But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never t... ISAAC ASIMOV
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and g... STEVEN SPIELBERG
The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story yo... MALCOLM LOWRY If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story.
DAVID GRANN
I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that... CECELIA AHERN
[Its nearest rival, I discovered, is The Last Question by science fiction maestro Isaac Asimov. This... ISAAC ASIMOV Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?
T.C. BOYLE
I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a s... DAVID COOK
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and gov... BARRY EISLER We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking...
PHIL FOGLIO I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. ...
HAKAN NESSER
A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like thro... CHINA MIéVILLE
I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It help...
QUVENZHANE WALLIS If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it'...
CLARE VANDERPOOL
To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll ... JOSEPH BRUCHAC For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the mo...
GILBERT HERNANDEZ
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformat... DONALD MILLER David was a great listener. I would throw out a story here, a story there.
ARTIE PASQUALE
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then ... RICHARD PRICE My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified...
KATE ADIE Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
I can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like... STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discov...
ROBERT MORGAN
We decided it needed to be more grounded. If people are not involved with the story, I don't think a... STEVE CARELL When something like personal genomics or synthetic biology suddenly appears - it seems to suddenly a...
GEORGE M. CHURCH I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if...
ELENA ANAYA A little bit surprised I guess, I don't really expect that. But I think when it all comes out - I do...
STEVE YZERMAN I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how t...
GARTH DAVIS I can already see exactly what this story ... is going to look like. It's going to be written by a b...
IAN MICHAELS
I don't think my books would've have been as successful as they are if the readers didn't think they... STEPHEN KING It was an idea, I thought, that could almost be written as a helping tool. People seemed to like the...
FLORENCE SEIDELMAN Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE
I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are suppo... JODI PICOULT These houses were flooded up to about the second story, if they had a second story, so everything wa...
KEATON THOMAS
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I beco... STEVEN SPIELBERG Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing a...
JOHN DARNIELLE
It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally...
AARTI SEQUEIRA This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS I hope it's snowing. I think that will be cool for some reason. If there was some crazy snowstorm, i...
ADAM BURISH
Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer star... NEIL GAIMAN As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out what's in it.
KELIS
I thought this was a great story about a winner who starts losing, ... And if you're a winner, what ... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorte...
JACQUELINE WOODSON
My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see... AVI
...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that eve... JEANETTE WINTERSON I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one sto...
MICHAEL WINTER
When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sente...
DANIEL EHRENHAFT Kathleen Kelly: Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on...
YOU'VE GOT MAIL
It seems to be the second coming for Fox, ... They're throwing everything into this thing. And it's ... DOMINIC PURCELL
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fair... NANCY WERLIN
The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in ... P.G. WODEHOUSE
Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's g... DAVID L. WOLPER I love the story of how my parents met because it seems very 1950s Brooklyn. They met on a brownston...
JANE KRAKOWSKI It's like lawn darts out there. It almost seems like you can birdie every hole. I don't know if I'll...
JIM MCGOVERN
When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you r... CHUCK PALAHNIUK War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending...But if it's a story, even i...
MARGARET ATWOOD Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
NICK FLYNN I worked over the last year and a half with a Hollywood screenwriter named Mark Shepherd. He develop...
GEOFF TATE
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time... EDITH WHARTON
I had seven minutes permanently burned out of my memory (when the van hit). I did get one back of th... STEPHEN KING In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN
Although it seems to be a ghetto movie, it very quickly becomes a much more intimate story, the stor... GAVIN HOOD
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on... WALLY SCHIRRA It was not written as a personal therapy. We are professionals. We have a cause and a point of view ...
DANIEL COHEN For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cut...
DEBORAH EISENBERG Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON
Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines ... DEAN KOONTZ I would like to think so. The fact if you had all your guys out there and you're healthy. If you are...
CARLOS DELGADO
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd ... BABE RUTH
On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are,... JIM RASH Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story be...
CHRIS WOODING
We could have been the greatest love story ever told.If only you'd stayed in character.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noi... STEVEN SPIELBERG It's really frustrating. It almost seems personal because I had money and things in the car that wer...
ERIC THOMPSON The thing about great teams is if you don't finish the story, it ain't going to be a story that's go...
ALAN ZEMAITIS I think (humor) just kind of comes to me naturally. It just seems like kind of the way I like to do ...
ADAM CARROLL I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out th...
KIRSTEN PROUT
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working wit... MANUEL PUIG Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know some...
JOHN ELDREDGE As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what any...
DAMON LINDELOF
I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where... LOIS LOWRY They bring a new story out every time I see them. But now I have the best story of all.
AUSTIN PEEBLES
Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not... WERNER HERZOG
Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story. ROBERT M. DRAKE Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work ...
CAROL WINDLEY In humanity, each individual's story was written well before time. It cannot be manipulated, it cann...
MARK CRANE I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take t...
CURTIS JACKSON
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new... NEIL GAIMAN It's hard to figure out what motivates people and it seems like a lot of high school sports, if you ...
HOLLY HARRIS
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if ... BABE RUTH True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, th...
JANE LINDSKOLD
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ... 
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau... 
When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist... 
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur... 
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p... 
One must work and dare if one really wants to live. 
I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say. 
I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac... 
If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes an... 
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authori... 
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad j... 
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led ... 
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. 
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. 
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wris... 
The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies. 