“Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls)… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter -… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
Beautiful Lies is a book every woman should read. Jennifer Strickland weaves the powerful story of her life throughout each chapter while… — Carol Kent Copy Share Image
“In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. In fact, the need to make up a story, especially when… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I'm grateful when stories come in a rush, although I keep an eye on them afterwards, to see whether they hold together.… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see… — Rasmenia Massoud Copy Share Image
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating… — Ian P. Griffin Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
There are so many great stories and characters out there that you can just keep saying, "Yes," but you've got to eventually… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
“What’s missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative...… — Sarah Moon Copy Share Image
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