The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. – James Whistler
I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story. – John McAfee
Oddly enough, I’ve always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn’t use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well. – J. August Richards
I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that’s what’s big in Nashville – the collaborative part of songwriting. – Jacob Whitesides
I’m not sure a lot of companies know their story, or can explain why they exist and who they are, without just spewing just corporate speech. – Jason Fried
I’ve seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn’t occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don’t feel like going back and dredging them up. – Jhumpa Lahiri
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. – Isabel Allende
The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It’s so hard to show something that’s bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart. – Jacqueline Woodson
If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else’s story. – Joss Whedon
Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write. – Italo Calvino
You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not frightening because one has not connected with the characters. – Jane Goldman
I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. – J. J. Abrams
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out. – Irwin Shaw
The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation. – Ilan Stavans
I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Federated was a chapter in that story, and it continues to write a new one. – John Battelle
When you’re my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I’d just like to get a few more novels under my belt. – John le Carre
I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it’s the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters’ dilemmas are remarkably similar. – Josh Hartnett
The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I’m replaying an event through a song. – Jason Mraz
It’s a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on. – James P. Hoffa
Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through how difficult the shooting actually was was that we are telling a real story. – John C. Reilly
Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don’t think how you tell a story is fundamentally different. – J. J. Abrams
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science’s story. – John Polkinghorne
All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won’t. – J. Michael Straczynski