Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling,… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie… — Griffith Edwards Copy Share Image
It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star,… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
The stupid and dishonest accountants allowed the genie of totally inappropriate accounting to descend on derivatives books. And once this has happened… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.' — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would… — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle. — John Major Copy Share Image
God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“A minute or so passed by--not long, but long enough to make me wonder whether Oliver was setting up mood lighting or… — Lindsay Ribar Copy Share Image
I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
“Soft woman and hard metal...unexpected & sexy as hell. Had she been real?” — Mina Khan Copy Share Image
Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick… — John Green Copy Share Image
If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd… — Chris Diamantopoulos Copy Share Image
