it becomes a problem when we mistake the stories in our…

“if you do a mistake, do that focusedly, after that you'll know what is the problem of your mistake.”

— Mario Teguh

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

— Jim Harrison

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

— Antonia Thomas

“Many think truth can be whatever they want it to be, and once they have made up their minds as to that truth, there’s…

— Van Harden

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with…

— Nikola Tesla

We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without,…

— Marcel Proust

“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted…

— Tudor Parfitt

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must…

— David Brin

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

— Philipp Meyer

We can never tell what is in store for us.

— Harry S. Truman

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

— Tim Vine

“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”

— Christopher Bram

“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You…

— Michael Chabon