I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Forbes did a story on , when I seen it in Forbes I was just like, "This looks good!" and it felt… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
As for not getting things right: I constantly rerun social situations/conversations I experience/have throughout my head, and I'm always writing them down… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
The love and support from the Witches of East End fans continues to blow us away and renews our faith that storytelling… — Rachel Boston Copy Share Image
Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy.… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning,… — J. Edwin Orr Copy Share Image
Christians believe that God came amongst us as a man, do they not? Yet the Muselmen say he was only a prophet,… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
I think it's one thing if you are turning out dozens or even a hundred stories a year, you've got to have… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of quotes and turn… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I think people like listening to what I call trippy music but maybe next year it will be something else. I still… — Juicy J Copy Share Image
The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I don't know if make a conscious effort to vary the characters and subjects that I write about, but I do find… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
The film world is far more male-dominated. I mean, the numbers are staggering at the level of how many people on set… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
“In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is "as good as she is beautiful". I… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The Anatomy of Conflict: If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people… — Bill Clinton Copy Share Image
I learned the game on the radio. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the Giants broadcasters when I was growing up in… — Jon Miller Copy Share Image
Well, the most important thing in choreographing for a specific tune is to get the story line and try to make your… — Cholly Atkins Copy Share Image
Pablito, the Bible was meant to be a bridge, not a wedge. It's the greatest love story ever told, about God's enduring… — Alex Sanchez Copy Share Image
We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
![“Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen…” quote by Stan Lee](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a90/stan-lee-1586_boys_jack-kirby-and-joe-simon-wrote-and-drew_1163951.jpg)
![“In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not really terrorists at all, just good folks trying to liberate people from technology and fight against an American government/corporation trying to coopt our souls. The…” quote by Alexander Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/95d/alexander-weinstein-17341_american-government_in-the-story-the-pyramid-and-the-ass-the_2664321.jpg)
![“The film world is far more male-dominated. I mean, the numbers are staggering at the level of how many people on set there are, and almost all the trades in film, there's a lot more men. So I can see without anyone intending to be biased [that] we have kind of a collective choosing of men's…” quote by Emma Donoghue](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/aa8/emma-donoghue-1499_biased_the-film-world-is-far-more-male-dominate_1521089.png)
