Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
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The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
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Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When… — Shiloh Fernandez Copy Share Image
One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I receive emails from readers that both break my heart and give me a profound sense of connection. Several months ago, I… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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Sometime during the 1990s, when I was teaching philosophy at UCSD, my friend, colleague, and music teacher, Carol Plantamura, discussed the possibility… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
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The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
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I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
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My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
...the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
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