Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing…

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I fall in love with certain stories. Those stories tend to be connected to my life some way - for instance, with my first…

— Daniel Coyle

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more…

— Jess Walter

When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change…

— David Grann

When you look around, and very close trusted people who would never cash you in, for lack of better words, and those people do…

— Kate Gosselin

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

— Chuck Palahniuk

In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination…

— John Allen Paulos

I feel confident that we will have a beginning, middle and end, in this season, and it was wise of NBC to then call…

— Remi Aubuchon

The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and…

— Giordano Bruno

Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.

— Annie Lennox

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

— Michel de Montaigne

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

— Elizabeth Banks

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning,…

— Socrates

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of…

— Craig Childs