We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
This is my favorite story of the week. The Republican National Committee is in trouble after spending nearly $2,000 at a bondage… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I… — Donald Davis Copy Share Image
Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more. — Megan Alexander Copy Share Image
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“We all have stories, just as you do. Ways in which he touched us, helped us, gave us money, sold it to… — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
“There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“I told you stories to give you wings, Raami, so that you would never be trapped by anything-your name, your title, the… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two… — Sean Covey Copy Share Image
I think this takes a lot of courage and integrity to find your own voice and way to express not only your… — Danae Elon Copy Share Image
I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and… — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching… — Fred Seibert Copy Share Image
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
We, the women and men of the Church, we are in the middle of a love story: each of us is a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case… — Debra Doyle Copy Share Image
I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
