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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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Thankfully, readers send a lot of stuff. They see stories in their local newspaper. Or friends of mine email me, what they… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
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A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
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Morning comes every day; the sunrise does not fail, nor the sunset. Give it time. That is all that may be required.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
In a way it was a modern story but it played to all those 1980 slasher movies. We did the same thing… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
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What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The AMA is urging the Federal Government not to classify marijuana as a dangerous drug and do more research. That's what they… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
There's a ton of stories that can come out of L.A. I actually think that even though I enjoy being in New… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was… — Prince William Copy Share Image
I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried,… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
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The media uses polls to create news stories. I think polls are just an extension of the editorial page, an excuse to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors]… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
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