That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. – Rem Koolhaas
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. – Raymond Queneau
I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of ‘Twilight Zone.’ I didn’t think about it. – Ryan Coogler
A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value. – Roy H. Williams
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you’re born and continues until the end. – Richard Hell
There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes. – Pierre Coffin
Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story. – Ron Carlson
I’m always drawn to stories that people don’t know about, particularly when they’re inside of a story that everyone knows about. – Robert Redford
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. – Raymond Queneau
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year. – Ray Bradbury
We know that we’re not supposed to be racially biased, and we don’t want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story. – Randall Kennedy
The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I’ve done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere. – Philip Kerr
Any film I’ve made, I’ve only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That’s when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea. – Roger Michell
Our biggest challenge is always story. The story is the ultimate thing you try to tackle. – Roy Conli
We’re still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tabloid fired several bullets into the air, and the rest of the herd began to stampede. – Richard Ben Cramer
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that’s what I’m trying to do. – Quentin Tarantino
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. – Raymond Queneau
I’m not against vodka – they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn’t true. – Robin Day
Studio people are bright. Empowering. They don’t want to have to interfere creatively. That’s their horror story, too. – Paul Greengrass
To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal. – Ryan Phillippe
Whether you’re talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it’s all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such a way that people are compelled to tune in. – Reza Aslan
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn’t interested any longer. That’s very astonishing. – Raymond Queneau
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. – Rush Limbaugh
The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in ‘The Outsiders’ is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It’s an everyman story. – S. E. Hinton
Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of ‘The Lord of the Rings’. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually. – Sean Bean
There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news. – Pat Sajak
