The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard. — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next… — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it,… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently.… — Amanda Plummer Copy Share Image
Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in… — David Wolpe Copy Share Image
The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well.… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
What people in the U.S. have to understand is that there is sometimes a deep political content in my work that's rooted… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
I keep writing stories that I might want to bring to life one day. — Satyadev Kancharana Copy Share Image
