This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Undisputed ends when I return to the WWE in 2007. There is already 3 ½ years of material including the 3 best… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I have a cousin, a second cousin, who lives in L.A., and she was with me while I was getting ready. She… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
I love seeing the Oscar films and epic dramas. But I'd rather watch a romantic comedy than any other kind of movie.… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
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Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope, And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath In that close… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“And that’s how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and die—take your… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves… It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with… — Ron Lamothe Copy Share Image
It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in… — Terrence Rafferty Copy Share Image
