We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention… — John Hench Copy Share Image
The big idea behind it was to somehow participate in the discussion about justice. What does it mean to be just to… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
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Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices,… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Everyone who became great at something has a similar story: For years, they worked on their craft every day, even if they… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and… — Michael Arnzen Copy Share Image
Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the… — William Greider Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I actually tried to think of the story [Room] in gender-neutral terms at first and said to myself, "OK, would this work… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
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It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
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I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
My favorite films are when all of the technicalities are so seamless and so well done that I'm not thinking about them… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
For me, it is important to not just tell the audience how the story ended today, but to give a glimpse into… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
“People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
One of the biggest stories in all of politics worldwide, in all of politics in this country, for decades is what's happened… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Taking Batman globally, not everything is going to have the same flavor as Gotham City; some places are going to be a… — David Finch Copy Share Image
The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
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