We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I don't need the water to be inspired. My stories inspire me, not the location of where I'm parked. And good thing,… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
When someone refuses to listen to you or others, there is one source or entity that he will listen to: Call it… — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they… — Sandra Dallas Copy Share Image
There's a truly unbelievable story in the paper today, that a young brother and sister... have been turned down for adoption by… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime… — Jack Wagner Copy Share Image
I don’t mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside,… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Each and every component that makes up your life experience is drawn to you by the powerful Law of Attraction's response to… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I'd have to think about it, but I was listening to this Johnny Cash song today that Tom Waits wrote for him… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
“I will tell these stories...because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak to these people, and I… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
If you have to become a filmmaker, find a story that takes you away, and tell that story. Don't think about whether… — Anne Makepeace Copy Share Image
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes… — Marat Safin Copy Share Image
We are so programmed to feel that our emotions are the most important thing in the Universe...We write, produce and act in… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only… — Travis Mathews Copy Share Image
