ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Through working with amazing people, the bar is always raised to do your own best work. I want to be a part… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog.… — Gene Autry Copy Share Image
Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. — James McBride Copy Share Image
“Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.” — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us. — Tom Bailey Copy Share Image
I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
With all of this new technology at our hand, there is much more opportunity to show and to allow the audience to… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a… — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Don't try and mimic men - how they operate, how they do business, how they direct, write or are creative. They are… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind. — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
