I could type in a closet and be fine. It’s just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story. – Karin Slaughter
No author’s writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampunk story, ‘The Ape-box Affair,’ is a sort of melange of Stevenson and P.G. Wodehouse. – James Blaylock
When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera. – Kevin Spacey
It’s hard for the American industry to see a Latin actor playing something that is not a gardener or someone in a cartel. It’s hard to find the material that tells a story of a Latin or European Spanish guy that is not a bad guy. – Jordi Molla
The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing. – Jimmy Rushing
In ‘Hamilton,’ we’re telling the stories of old, dead white men, but we’re using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience. – Lin-Manuel Miranda
Eventually, it came to this place like, ‘I’d like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.’ ‘Man of Tai Chi’ became the story to tell. – Keanu Reeves
I’m a child of the literary bent. I don’t want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story. – Joanne Kelly
Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil. – Janet Maslin
Of course, I’m drawn to a place like Iraq because It’s the biggest story of our generation. – Joe Sacco
It is a very beautiful story, ‘The Crow.’ It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes. – Luke Evans
Ordering is difficult. It’s like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly. – Lydia Davis
From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me. – Jean M. Auel
When I looked at the skeleton of ‘Damn Yankees,’ I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment. – Jack O’Brien
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story. – Jerry B. Jenkins
So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won’t come out that way – it’ll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don’t really control that. – Keren Ann
I didn’t mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story. – Jimmy Piersall
We don’t hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change. – Josh Schwartz
Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing. – Jason Reitman
I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear? – Joyce Maynard
The way that I write novels in particular is I don’t usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what’s happening in the story as I’m going along. – John Scalzi
