I draw on a lot of cinematic influences like Ingmar Bergman and Wim Wenders, artists who let a story take its time. Comics are a visual medium, and visuals should be allowed to tell some of that story. – Jeff Lemire
In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I’m not someone who can go into a story and not get involved. – Janine di Giovanni
You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric. – Barry Manilow
When a story is told really well and is real, even if it’s not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves. – Jeff Bridges
What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time. – Jonathan Sacks
A story in your head isn’t a story. It’s just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down. – Andy Weir
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. – Aminatta Forna
I’m aware of ‘Twilight,’ but I’ve never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold – why do a vampire story about abstinence? – Alan Ball
Also there is a twist to the story as I’m being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene. – Bo Derek
I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it’s accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there’s a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time. – Al Michaels
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important – where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. – Bill James
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story. – Alice Morse Earle
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. – Anne Rice
My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that’s really elaborate about werewolves and wolves. – Amanda Hocking
That’s such a thrill – a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it’s still packin’ the house. – Anne McCaffrey
I intentionally approached each story in ‘Killing and Dying’ in a different way, and that includes the writing process. – Adrian Tomine
My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18… Now I’m more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them. – Bjarke Ingels
I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read – to find out the end of the story. – Ann Turner
Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story… we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves. – Corin Tucker
There’s a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It’s a narrative of hope. – Bruce Feiler
The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for ‘Fortune’ saying everything’s going to be different now. – Bethany McLean
Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you’re performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they’re chuffed – they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out. – Adrian Grenier
Hopefully, when people see ‘Senna’, they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone. – Asif Kapadia
I love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don’t necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar and Borges wrote in different structural styles. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When I first began to have the initial idea for ‘Heartsease,’ I just wrote a skeleton story; that is, I started her off as this young, bright 16-year-old and then added the events that occurred and where she and other characters fitted in, even writing 3 different endings, as I was not sure where Mary’s story would lead to. – Ann Turner
The most difficult story that I’ve ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was ‘The Constant’ episode of ‘Lost,’ which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling. – Carlton Cuse
