A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale:… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too.… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes people that are very good at improvisation in life, meaning like stage improvisation, aren't good in films because you have to… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background,… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
I’m going back to bed,” Grandma said when Mooner and Dougie left. “This doesn’t look too interesting. I liked it better the… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Osho used me and Shunyo (my girlfriend at the time) as an example of how he envisioned men and women should relate.… — Swami Anand Milarepa Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
David Langford, illustrates the difference between teaching and learning in a little story. He says, 'You know, last Wednesday I taught my… — Myron Tribus Copy Share Image
I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
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I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes,… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
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Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump realizes that if the story, in a day or two, is that the United States is in a… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
The short story is so much about inevitability and this feeling that things always had to be this one way, and I… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestion of reading aloud, had disappeared,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
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