I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I've read before. If I tell you that it's funny, and moving, and true;… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
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My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
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The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling.… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
My family moved to the Philippines when I was 14. While living there, I learned that my mom grew up very poor.… — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“There's no point in making up a world, Elisabeth said, when there's already a real world, There's just the world, and there's… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a… — Richard Beymer Copy Share Image
I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to… — John Green Copy Share Image
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As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
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