The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I hope I'll have the opportunity to debate how we reform and update our immigration system. I will relate my own story… — Ami Bera Copy Share Image
The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It really ups your production value when you have one person that you can use as your avatar through a story, but… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual… — Jeff Schaffer Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
The first Star Wars movie was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If… — Polly Young-Eisendrath Copy Share Image
Almost no one as I think most leadership books are a joke. They are, as I note in Leadership BS, frequently based… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“No,” said Bran. “I haven’t. And if I have it doesn’t matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
When we were trying to get 'Jersey Boys' off the ground, I'd get, 'The Four Seasons? Who's going to care? There's the… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories,… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
You've got my heart in unfamiliar territory. It's never been out here on my sleeve. But here tonight with you it's quite… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities… — Vittorio Storaro Copy Share Image
What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
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