Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
If we weren't doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was. I'm not saying that RoboCop is Shakespeare, but it's a way… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
Yeah, that'll excite the media, what role will Bill [Clinton] have, versus the [Donald] Trump story. But in all of this, the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make… — George Nolfi Copy Share Image
The media is tremendously important for all governments that are able to communicate through the it. It doesn't mean there is a… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn… — Matt Cullen Copy Share Image
Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Its eerie future world and… — Linnea Sinclair Copy Share Image
It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We do a lot of "capital I" important stories, but one I'd highlight is the work we've done on guns, not only… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
I've done movies in the past that have so many characters and I find it's very hard to follow all these stories.… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a… — adam johnson Copy Share Image
Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are… — James Frey Copy Share Image
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
If we can forgive what’s been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we’ve done to others .… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I've heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it… — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image
I have about 1,000 hours of myself on tape in a vault in Los Angeles. But I also have a photographic memory… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I… — Caroline Dhavernas Copy Share Image
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image