“Frog speaks in a “Ye Olde Englishy” dialogue that is as charming as it is grammatically suspect. No one else in 600… — Michael P. Williams Copy Share Image
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
We live in the world of images, but we also live in the world of the Internet, of zapping and where people… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my… — Liz Tuccillo Copy Share Image
“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Even if the experience in my stories is not autobiographical and the actual plot is not autobiographical, the emotion is always somewhat… — Katie Wech Copy Share Image
I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time… — Gideon Rachman Copy Share Image
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got… — Harvey Korman Copy Share Image
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
