There are also dozens and dozens of success stories; many couples have emailed me with their original posts. I love reading these… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great -… — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down… — Louis Riel Copy Share Image
It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
It's harder now for journalists to do stories about billionaires, like Peter Thiel, without having at the back of their minds the… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends, in and out of golf, and there is a mutual trust. I'm very serious at the… — Vijay Singh Copy Share Image
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
I see a huge, huge divide between the people who are facing the most barriers and violence and the kinds of stories… — Grace Dunham Copy Share Image
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I believe that if a child has a feel for writing and wants to write, there is an audience. Children should just… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just want to tell a story regardless of whether it fits what the show is saying. I’ve been in a… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not… — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Our history is a passion for me. I feel that we leave out so much information and huge gaps in the American… — Jasmine Guy Copy Share Image
“It's good enough. It has to be, doesn't it? You see, lad, Aes Sedai are tricksome. They don't lie, not right out,… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I love Europe, but we are still struggling with that kind of development. First of all, we don't have a smart conversation… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Neither Romelu nor myself were happy with the game he had and his reaction. He has apologised and for me that is… — Marc Wilmots Copy Share Image
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
