One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was… — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA. I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we… — Terrence J Copy Share Image
For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.… — John Winthrop Copy Share Image
Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would… — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not.… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Blasting the music,Sit in the corner with thoughts,Close my eyes, cover my ears,and realizing everything I've done, over thinking and opened my… — Jazzy Copy Share Image
You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at… — Othniel Charles Marsh Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Stories nowadays are put in to squares, just like everything else. Stories are ever changing. They are like rivers that flow, but… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
An interesting example is that the worst woman in the book, who is so cruel and violent, is the sorceress in "The… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story,… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was… — Ami McKay Copy Share Image
Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
Different personalities inspire me as an actor. Especially quirky personalities, maybe people I wouldn't normally get along with or be friends with… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image