Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
If you take the time to listen to an upset child's story with empathy, and guide the child toward figuring out the… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories.… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think it's always a challenge when you're telling a story that people know. But hopefully, good storytelling - well, there's two… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda.… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research--I've just got… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The movie [Miral] is not pro-Palestinian. It's about Palestinians. It's a Palestinian story, written by a Palestinian person. I don't know anybody… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
While this is a chapter that has closed in our life, it is not the end of the story for Randy [White]… — Paula White Copy Share Image
I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
There are a lot of celebrities that I think can get a little bit distracted by the way that our society views… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot… — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story,… — Trevor Hall Copy Share Image
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