“If the audience doesn't care about the characters, they won't care about the jokes.”— David Zucker
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”— Chinua Achebe
“It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.”— Chinua Achebe
“I prefer to be a part of a film that has a message, that has a vision, that has a story worth telling.”— Isabelle Adjani
“Everywhere, the telling of tales is a communal act, a collective experience. There is no tale-teller, and there is no tale, without a community of listeners.”— Ama Ata Aidoo
“A great biography is a great story. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It has a protagonist and it has a cast of supporting characters.”— Jon Lee Anderson
“In the middle of the night Miss Clavel turned on the light and said, 'Something is not right!'”— Ludwig Bemelmans
“I'm always thinking about the last page of the issue as I'm writing the first.”— Brian Michael Bendis
“I like to have a hero and a heroine who are very much in love, but they're not going to get together until the end of the book.”— Mary Higgins Clark