Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can’t. – Ray McKinnon
There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there’s no such thing as a boring biography of them – you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again. – Robert Gottlieb
Everybody has their own story – it’s who you are. If I wasn’t five-foot, I wouldn’t be who I am! – Sabrina Carpenter
I don’t like books that play to the gallery, but I’ve become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can. – Salman Rushdie
I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling. – Oliver Stone
The story of Bennet Omalu is a riveting story; it’s just a riveting tale. I knew from the beginning if I stayed close to that kind of storytelling and focussed on the character, then the other stuff comes along with it, and the message becomes baked into the journey. – Peter Landesman
For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory. – Rachael Taylor
Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written – then it’s completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor. – Richard Schiff
The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed. – Richard Helms
I’m a storyteller – that’s my chamber, that’s my box. I’m always tryin’ to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go. – Raekwon
When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like ‘The Candidate’. – Robert Redford
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it. – Robert Creeley
A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, ‘Clarissa’ – that’s not a novel; it’s just a bunch of letters. But it isn’t! Because it’s organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it. – Romesh Gunesekera
I think sequels are fine if there’s a story, so I think when there is a property that is worthy of a sequel, it could very well happen! – Roy Conli
I think that when you’re making a story… that’s based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research. – Ryan Coogler
What you never want to do is have a story that doesn’t track emotionally, because then you’re going joke to joke and you’re going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that’s going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is. – Paul Feig
As a director, you’re looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue. – Randa Haines
The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it’s all in the story. – Robert Redford
Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie. – Rodman Philbrick
When ‘The Washington Post’ ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term. – Ronald Kessler
I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses. – R. A. Salvatore
You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to. – Richard Dean Anderson
I don’t really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don’t read stories, first of all. I just remember either a rabbit or a rat leading people out of the village with a flute. That’s all I can tell you. – R. Kelly
