What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
God has stepped in at the last minute more than once in history (remember Moses at the Red Sea?). And He can… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live.… — James Chace Copy Share Image
I really hope it engenders a lot of conversation because I believe there are a lot of people who put on faces.… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
[Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance,… — Tim Foreman Copy Share Image
From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer and invariably… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with… — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . .… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff… Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling… — Valerie Sayers Copy Share Image
Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have… — Jamie Bamber Copy Share Image
They're classic themes, which is why I think it's such a great story to look at again. The concept of being loyal… — Adrian Hodges Copy Share Image
I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
“What did the mat say to the door? You must be really aDOORable to open up to everyone who knock at you.… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy… — C. J. Box Copy Share Image
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary… — Daryn Kagan Copy Share Image
In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“-Dream up something wild and improbable. Something beautiful and full of monsters. -Beautiful and full of monsters? -All the best stories are.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
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