I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
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The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go… — David Copy Share Image
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Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
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He held my hand and told me a story about when he was six and threw a rock at a kid's head… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy,… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
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It's such a unique story. Book of Joshua in the Bible wasn't always my favorite book, by the way. Only some ago… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
When I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real, I wasn't upset; rather, I was relieved that there was a much simpler… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
Most of all, the ultra distance leaves you alone with your thoughts to an excruciating extent. Whatever song you have in your… — Scott Jurek Copy Share Image
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think most of the time with independent films, you don't know where it's gonna end up. I've done a number of… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the… — Ed McClanahan Copy Share Image
It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people… — Storm Constantine Copy Share Image
My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust… — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“ Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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