Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Don’t see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it… — Karen White Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I do think people need to recognize that a lot of journalists want to write a story a certain way because the… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think everybody did their share of experimenting in the 1960s with drugs. My story is real simple. I was taking amphetamines… — Tommy James Copy Share Image
When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do… — John Romita, Sr Copy Share Image
Reagan said that government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. And he was going to dismantle that… — Brian Balogh Copy Share Image
Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be… — Shepard Smith Copy Share Image
And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances,… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
On one tour, I was collecting stories about pet monkeys. You'd be surprised how many people have stories about monkeys. The problem… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
“Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they’re capable of so much more than they imagined they were.… — Amethyst Marie Copy Share Image
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,'… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward.… — David Heyman Copy Share Image
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
What I've realized in the last year, 80% of my act has already happened to me, and it's not until you retell… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
I guess artists are living inspiration. There's something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them… — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
“What spares us is memory,” he said. “It’s what makes us worth saving. However low we sink, whatever promise we no longer… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
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