“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program. — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways. — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
I wasn't terribly familiar. I had read some of the headlines but didn't quite understand difference between WikiLeaks...[Edward] Snowden. And then watching… — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end-… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is. — Toni Collette Copy Share Image
The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare;… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
But who knows their own child? You know bits - certain predictable reactions, a handful of familiar qualities. The rest is impenetrable.… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
We are not familiar with losing, and that is one thing we stress in this locker room: Dont get familiar with losing,… — Donald Driver Copy Share Image
By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live in it,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I… — Ice T Copy Share Image
