It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything. — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the… — David Morse Copy Share Image
Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat. — Too $hort Copy Share Image
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Whenever you’re down on your luck, and when things aren’t going the way you like, remember that you are the author of… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
One of my first jobs was in a soap opera, five days a week. And what I found is, although there are… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, in other times - a delightful double existence; and… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
Although not initially of his own choosing, Michael Mann has been the most important, resilient, and outspoken warrior in the climate battle--responding… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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