All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
I just co-created a story for a Disney movie that I'm working on with my fiancée. And also about to finish up… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme… — Sanna Lenken Copy Share Image
Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
47 Ronin is a very special movie for me. Not only a Samurai thing. Not only a Hollywood fantasy. It has a… — Hiroyuki Sanada Copy Share Image
The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
I posted some story about the Arizona State baseball coach getting into a fight with an autograph hound, and it was a… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and… — Hiroshi Yamauchi Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
We wait until Pandora's box is opened before we say, "Wow, maybe we should understand what's in that box." This is the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The fact that a TV star can become president should be old news since [Ronald] Reagan, and old news since the Nixon-Kennedy… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the… — Don Bluth Copy Share Image
I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form,… — Maxine Cheshire Copy Share Image
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
Most stories in 'True Blood' take place over a short amount of time. I think the entire three seasons of the show… — Michael McMillian Copy Share Image
Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story… — Michaela Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
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