If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to… — Michael Madsen Copy Share Image
Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
His name was Michael R. Ross. I've never known what the "R" was for. He died, however, before I was 7. But… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story,… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I got home from work today and took like a one hundred hour nap. No you did not. You'd be very sick… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I've never had a problem with someone saying "yeah you're pretty, but you can't rap." In fact, I've heard things about other… — Jacki-O Copy Share Image
“I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
You do not have to have money to attract money, but you cannot feel poor and attract money. The key is, you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past, — Jeffrey Katzenberg Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total… — Nigel Kneale Copy Share Image
Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story,… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
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