William Campbell Gault Quotes
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Samuel Goldwyn -
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
Salman Rushdie -
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
Harlan Coben -
It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
Baltasar Kormakur -
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
Fede Alvarez -
With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
Garth Ennis
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
Sam Kean -
I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
Damien Rice -
A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
Sam Hunt -
My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
Karen Robards -
I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down -
I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
Zach Braff
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
Gary Allan -
I write in the studio.
Macy Gray -
A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
Aaron Sorkin -
I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
Bebe Rexha -
When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
Carlton Cuse -
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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History is a ghost story.
Cressida Cowell -
If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.
Brenda Peterson -
In August they had a bad fright. Her lawyer had suggested that—in view of the circumstances—they drop the divorce. This filled them both with profound dread; at the thought of staying married, of sinking back into the deadly boredom of their pre-divorce days, they felt nothing but horror. They realized more than ever that marriage for them was unthinkable.
Bel Kaufman -
I could live naked... I love it.
Olivier Theyskens -
I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.
Redd Foxx -
If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.
William Campbell Gault