What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Well, I've thought about donating, but they get so many damn donations already. I read about one foundation that raised over 100… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories. — Sean Taylor Copy Share Image
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He's the coolest.… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
Walt Disney was a story man, and he knew that we were thinking story. That's why he dug us so much and… — Richard M. Sherman Copy Share Image
I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
What's wonderful about Into The Woods is that you have a combination of all the most famous fairytales in this one story. — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep.… — Carson Grant Copy Share Image
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always known the cycle covered five rift… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously… — Robert Manne Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A lot of time, with stories, I'll start out with a title and try to dream myself into the story that it… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me. — James Denton Copy Share Image
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