There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality.… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies.… — Cecile de France Copy Share Image
The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
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
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
We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
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
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
This kind of behavior is so bizarre – no matter which version of the story you believe, even if you take Doug’s… — Michael Farris Copy Share Image
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
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and anything can be… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple… — George Jones Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not angry. As an athlete ... you should be open to criticism, and you're allowed to be criticized, because not everybody… — Roger Federer 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
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
![“I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I…” quote by George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d4a/george-sand-1753_chiefs_i-loved-fairy-stories-so-and-my-mother-w_1388127.jpg)
![“My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.” quote by Steven Spielberg](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/be7/steven-spielberg-963_abraham_my-movies-more-often-are-told-through-pi_136993.jpg)
