I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story. – Dara Horn
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day – it doesn’t sound much, but it can be difficult if I’m not sure where the story is going. – Catherine Fisher
I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are. – Donald Miller
That’s what makes a good show. It doesn’t target one group. It tells a story everyone gets. – Cristela Alonzo
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches. – Douglas Wood
I’d waste a holiday trying to set a story in this new place I’d visit, whereas I would never write a story about Indianapolis. – Darryl Pinckney
The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated. – David Sze
I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they’re very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that. – Charlie Rowe
What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They’ll take one element of a story that may be true and they’ll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it. – Dennis Quaid
One of the pillars of ‘Cyrano’ is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us. – Edgar Ramirez
I just wrapped ‘Eclipse’ yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way. – Nikki Reed
What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren’t real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel. – Charlie Cox
Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don’t run with the story. – Mary Hart
If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write. – Nell Freudenberger
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism. – Dick Schaap
I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere’s a long way from the publishing industry now. – Nick Earls
Beauty shouldn’t be superficial and should come from within, and your eyes will tell the story. – Michelle Yeoh
I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story. – Michelle Monaghan
We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility. – David Christian
It’s like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they’re glorifying it as their top story. – Daisy Berkowitz
The thing that struck me most after first viewing ‘The Sessions’ was the charm of Mark O’Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story. – Marco Beltrami
The difference between mad people and sane people… is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over. – Maxine Hong Kingston
A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won’t buy it; they’ll be unhappy. – Dorothy Fields
The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre. – Doug TenNapel
There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don’t believe they are; it’s a technique to tell a story. – Gore Verbinski
