In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I think the most interesting thing about any story is how people change. That's usually a struggle, because change is pretty much… — Toni Collette Copy Share Image
Part of the problem of being labeled a model minority is that everyone thinks you've made it, but that's far from the… — Arthur Dong Copy Share Image
The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts;… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously… — Robert Manne Copy Share Image
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
You don't actually find a strong correlation between- top-line GDP growth and making money in the market. It- it seems like you… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance… — Sim Van der Ryn Copy Share Image
Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal… — Fred Van Lente Copy Share Image
Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to… — Will Packer Copy Share Image
To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can… — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists.… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its… — C. Sigman Copy Share Image
I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Maybe those stories did more harm than good by giving us false hope. All they did was reinforce our faith that the… — Aditi Khorana Copy Share Image
I think our goal and intention is to make sure that, when you watch each episode, you don't have to make that… — Alex Kurtzman Copy Share Image
“I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very… — Timur Bekmambetov Copy Share Image
