If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.
~ Michael Ignatieff
I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.
~ Deborah Raney
Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.
~ Amy Bloom
The idea was always going to be that each year is a stand-alone story, which did make it easier on some level. It also requires the network to have the creative imagination to say, 'This is also 'Fargo,' you know what I mean?
~ Noah Hawley
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
~ Amy Waldman
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.
~ Jennifer Granholm
My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.
~ Michael Foreman
Atari is a very sad story.
~ Steve Wozniak
I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.
~ Sylvia Day
I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
~ Lorrie Moore
We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.
~ Tom Baker
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
~ Aaliyah
You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one.
~ Alex Tizon
'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.
~ Stephen Kinzer
The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
~ Robert Redford
One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.
~ Justin Zackham
I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
~ Adam Sandler
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
~ Bob Woodward
If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.
~ Gus Van Sant
'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
~ John Lasseter
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
~ Raina Telgemeier
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
~ Sally Kellerman
You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.
~ Rashida Jones
I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
~ Rachel Mcadams
'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
~ Saoirse Ronan
There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.
~ Taylor Swift
There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
~ Bernie Mac
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
~ Bruce Springsteen
You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
~ Willem Dafoe
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
~ Stockwell Day
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.
~ James Lafferty
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.
~ Josh Fox
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
~ Bruce Sterling
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
~ Suzanne Collins
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
My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.
~ Lily Collins
