I’m not really a big musical fan. I enjoyed ‘West Side Story’ when it came out, but it gets a bit tired in the end. – John Hurt
Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn’t sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would. – Ira Glass
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio. – Ian Rankin
I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story… I didn’t want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something. – Julianne Moore
My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go – just go, go, go. – Jack Kerouac
Even among those who have no special allegiance to a particular branch of Christianity, there are plenty of seekers as well as agnostics and atheists who harbor a certain curiosity about Jesus and his story. – Jay Parini
I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you. – Isobelle Carmody
The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001. – John Podhoretz
We are not the originators of the story. I think it’s actually the opposite when you’re an actor. You’re telling somebody else’s story. – Jessica Lange
It’s much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there’s a gap in the story. – James Gray
I see my role as a translator, telling the story that’s in the book using the more visual language of film. – Jane Goldman
I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don’t go out. I’m just locked away, writing. It’s a time of meditation, of going into the story. – Isabel Allende
Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians. – Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story. – Jhumpa Lahiri
My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story. – Ang Lee
There’s a television show, ‘Hoarders,’ where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we’ve got a story about absolutely everything. – Chuck Palahniuk
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don’t have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia – if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos. – Aleksandar Hemon
When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story! – Judy Blume
A picture story just doesn’t run like a film. It doesn’t have 24 frames per second. It doesn’t deal with this illusion of movement. – Ben Katchor
I’m big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that’s what I do. Hey, so does John Irving. – Caroline Leavitt
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise. – Cameron Crowe
I tend to write my beginnings and endings first – as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn’t sit down every day if I didn’t know where the story was headed. – Jeff Lemire
I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story. – Adam Schlesinger
