I have a writing space in my apartment, but I prefer to write at coffee shops. When I'm stuck, I take a… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believe in a lot of… — Emanuel Steward Copy Share Image
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a… — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's a misconception, but I often get asked why I always make stories about family and love. Over… — Anne Sewitsky Copy Share Image
Tending 100-year-old vines, I've been fortunate to craft highly rated, small production, estate grown wines since 1998. A labor of love, our… — Michael Chiarello Copy Share Image
In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been working. I've been blessed to have shared a movie in the north of Chile called 'The 33,' with Gabriel… — Cote de Pablo Copy Share Image
Many of the early greats of sf Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular saw themselves as educators. The… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“HEARTWORK Each day is born with a sunrise and ends in a sunset, the same way we open our eyes to see… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below).… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
“Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their faces--sometimes it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
You are the only one who creates in your experience - no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used… — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Let someone else take a crack at [your story]. Sometimes, even after time has passed, we're just too close to the thing.… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Real crime-beat investigative journalism does seem to be really dwindling, especially in this age with everything being centered around iPhones. Everyone's a… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Vera said: “Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?” So I told her why. Because if I… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
We write for actors and even down to the smallest character in the film, they all have their moment. You take that… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining [1980]. Nicholson was saying that, as… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it,… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families,… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
![“Let someone else take a crack at [your story]. Sometimes, even after time has passed, we're just too close to the thing. You don't want to kill your darlings or, maybe it's the opposite: you just want to kill all of it with cleansing fire. Let someone else confirm or veto your feelings. They'll…” quote by Chuck Wendig](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/626/chuck-wendig-5165_cleansing_let-someone-else-take-a-crack-at-your-st_2228234.jpg)
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