History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side. — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards. — Michael Bergdahl Copy Share Image
Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Thankfully, readers send a lot of stuff. They see stories in their local newspaper. Or friends of mine email me, what they… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors]… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
There is a theory, that I rather subscribe to. The frame story implies that if he doesn't change, she will kill him.… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“people like stories because they are good, not because they are true.” — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
SEEING BELIEVING what’s in front of you is not necessarily the entire story — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Every number has a name! Every name has a story! Every story matters to God! — Perry Noble Copy Share Image
Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others. — Seth Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long. — Joan Severance Copy Share Image
When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on. — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge. — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. — Bill James Copy Share Image
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling. — Judy Reyes Copy Share Image
I had a lot of really emo stories as a kid. I wrote a lot of fan fiction. — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
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