With ‘Shameless,’ ‘Homeland’ and ‘American Horror Story,’ these are all shows that don’t follow a particular mold, and they are out-there. The acting is spectacular. – Shanola Hampton
Never look for the story in the ‘lede.’ Reporters are required to put what’s happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. – William Safire
I usually don’t like to ‘spoon feed’ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same. – The Weeknd
I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write – I have a ‘story by’ credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all. – Topher Grace
I’m always touched by people’s different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person. – Tracee Ellis Ross
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story. – Seth Grahame-Smith
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. – Sid Caesar
If I have to pick one story that most influenced ‘The Hunger Games,’ it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them. – Suzanne Collins
The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay. – Virginia Postrel
The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they’re like. – Scarlett Pomers
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that’s what you do. – Theodore Sturgeon
Usually, when I’m rappin’, I’m creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me. – Tyler, The Creator
I’ve made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation. – Satyajit Ray
‘Radioactive’ is the fall out of my life’s inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story. – Yelawolf
My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate. – Taylor Swift
The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce. – Tobe Hooper
The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication. – Simon Schama
To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story. – Tim O’Brien
The fountain of youth is like the monkey’s paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well. – Sarah Monette
I like to allow a story to arise as I’m writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes. – Whit Stillman
With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it’s getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story. – Walter Cronkite
I said to my team, ‘I’m doing ‘Gilmore Girls’ no matter what. There’s no way I’ll miss it,’ because I owed it to the story. The story is bigger than the sum of its parts. – Tanc Sade
Prison has a universal fascination. It’s a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars. – Wentworth Miller
