The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain, I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring any pain you know it is healed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THE YEAR OF THE RAT Chen Qiufan KORMAK THE LUCKY Eleanor Arnason IN THE MOUNTAINS OF FROZEN FIRE Rus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season',… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks. Mom's everyday life used… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone has their own stories. Just because you know their name, doesn't mean you know what kind of pain they truly feel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A friend knows all of your best stories but a sister has been through all of them with you... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back — Anonymous Copy Share
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share
Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share
Distance is a test of love. many will fail for those who can't withstand it, but for those who can, theres only one answer… — Anonymous Copy Share
The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much. — Anonymous Copy Share
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share