I know some stories about "liberation" and stuff that's been liberated by people who turn around and get on their soapbox about… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
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The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
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Suddenly, I realized how tough trying to structure a story like this is. It was a lot of work. The one big… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
I think it's quite common and realistic. There are many stories like this [in Waitress]. [Jenna, my character] marriage looks really horrible… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity now to join in the celebration of possibility, to align ourselves with the forces of life. We’ll need… — Velcrow Ripper Copy Share Image
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
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William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
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I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
One day, I was running to the river. Along the way there was the most exquisite butterfly, a tiny little thing, on… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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