Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on… — Alan King Copy Share Image
I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content… — Nate Powell Copy Share Image
Everyone was talking about having airplanes disappear. And I said, "Wait, wait, wait. That's what you like? I'd tell you a story… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
I've been astounded to discover how good to their teams and crew that Marvel are. They're so collaborative, so smart with their… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked… — ZZ Packer Copy Share Image
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
When I'm watching television or a movie, I like to see stories that are extraordinary. I don't need it be something that… — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we… — Frank Warren Copy Share Image
New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story,… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image