Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - ''possessive'', even. You know more about him… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters.… — William Devane Copy Share Image
In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing...… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze,… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I simply couldn’t conceive of how devastating it would be not to be able to hear my children’s voices. Not to be… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was invited. Oxford University Press is simply as prestigious a press as there is so when they come to your door… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It’s such a fun job, and it can be silly and light and about making people laugh. I think I was doing… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, great marketing is all about telling your story in such… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
We have to get the federal government out of the business of educating our kids and telling us how to do it.… — Liz Cheney Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I… — Bonnie McFarlane Copy Share Image
Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for… — Kim Swift Copy Share Image
Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
As someone who is obsessed with fashion, I personally own non-vegan materials and am very open about that. I don't think it's… — Jeffree Star Copy Share Image
I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering.… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The story of Judith. But one of the reasons I'm doing it is because the roles I've been writing for myself over… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
There is a theory, that I rather subscribe to. The frame story implies that if he doesn't change, she will kill him.… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
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