It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“You alone own your story. Do not let another tell it, and if you find yourself in the company of one determined… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations. — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also,… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The stories leaders and others tell, few of which are true, are a lousy foundation on which to base any sort of… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices,… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I think you can tilt too far to the side of the story where the message is just simply entertainment. So I… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
The New York Times has had fake stories. CBS has had fake stories. And now Newsweek had a fake story. You realize… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others… — Malcolm D. Lee Copy Share Image
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation',… — Plato Copy Share Image
What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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