I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal's school and I eventually cut… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I couldn't find any meaning for my life when I was out there, I'm sure as hell not going to find it… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Christians should ultimately do everything that we do with excellence. There's a story about repairs in the Sistine Chapel ... when some… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
The new approach to health care will feature the healing power of story. In the clear understanding that finding meaning in any… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
What I do with everything is take things out of real life. You encounter all sorts of stories. It's a lot of… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Where we're telling the story of the history of the ensemblist [in the "Ensemblist Essentials"], using the nine musicals that have won… — Nikka Graff Lanzarone Copy Share Image
When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter,… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My big "double-aha" moment came while anchoring the national news at CBS News. It was at the height of the recession, and… — Michelle Gielan Copy Share Image
Literature is an aspect of story and story is all that exists to make sense of reality. War is a story. Now… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey… — John Irving Copy Share Image
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“The interesting thing, to the Sergeant, was how these stories were at least in one way quite true to life: you didn’t… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that… — Avi Copy Share Image
Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
There's nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about our… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You have never been as beautiful as you will be through our eyes. You will have never known that the hard edge… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
I think that even though The German Doctor (Wakolda) is placed in a historical context , it is a very intimate story.… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent… — John Muir Copy Share Image
You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
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