Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended /… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line… — Lance Wubbels Copy Share Image
I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it… — Suzanne Shaw Copy Share Image
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
American Horror Story re-energized me; it re-energized my career. There’s no shame in recognizing that. It’s exposed me to a whole new… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It's nice if you're making a regular pop or rock album and you get ten little songs. But I really try to… — Hans-Peter Lindstrøm Copy Share Image
Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money… — Questlove Copy Share Image
I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem… — Mark Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel... I sort of get very excited… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa.… — Dennis Rodman Copy Share Image
Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine, but we cant think of HIV/AIDS as being somebody else's story. It could be any of ours. — Rihanna Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image
The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way. — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
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