I grew up in a very loving but very broken family, and I suppose that's why I'm drawn to telling stories about… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“We think that history is created in the big things, in the big events, but history is also created in the small… — Sharanya Haridas Copy Share Image
Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“After a week's worth of failed fairy tales—stories that made my eyelids flutter open and not shut—my father tried telling me stories… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
I don't think that there's a target audience at all. These stories were in circulation. The stories were told by men, told… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
There have been times I thought that when I got a certain point in the story, a certain character was going to… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn't have to be a secret seaplane and a historic sports moment, but… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, in other times - a delightful double existence; and… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Although not initially of his own choosing, Michael Mann has been the most important, resilient, and outspoken warrior in the climate battle--responding… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot… — Justin Chadwick Copy Share Image
Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently.… — Amanda Plummer Copy Share Image
Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
What people in the U.S. have to understand is that there is sometimes a deep political content in my work that's rooted… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in… — David Wolpe Copy Share Image
The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well.… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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