I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
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The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
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Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
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I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
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People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
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I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
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You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
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