You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
It's an old story; it's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
When you have your chance to make a film, don't focus on pleasing everyone. I think the goal is to live in… — Jennifer Phang Copy Share Image
I believe God has instilled in us a craving, a deep desire to run with Him on a fantastic adventure, yet many… — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
'X-Men' films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell. — Josh Helman Copy Share Image
Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast… — Will Estes Copy Share Image
I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me,… — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When you're in a relationship, the dynamic seems to change over time. I only had two long-term girlfriends, but with both of… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost.… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe,… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I don't want to tell what the songs are about for me, because then people can't decide for themselves, which is why… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if… — Elena Anaya Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the… — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
