I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories. — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it's going… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
so the story goes but theres something you should know before i walk away and i blow the ending i never want… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the disconnect with the earth we have going relates to a deeper sickness of losing touch with our souls, our bodies,… — Frazey Ford Copy Share Image
I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action. — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it.… — Paul Mazursky Copy Share Image
Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
