“Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial… — David E. Fessenden Copy Share Image
Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my… — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to have a client, they have to have… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no… — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of really good programming on television. What I've noticed, through the years of being a professional writer,… — Lauren Iungerich Copy Share Image
When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The campaign for the White House is heating up with John Kerry taking heat for throwing his Vietnam medals away, getting a… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The stories that have had the deepest impact on me and one of the reasons I was excited to finally get to… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
Sometimes the music just has to tell the story without you trying to tell the story. It depends on the type of… — Tyga Copy Share Image
What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory . . .these aren't just the stories of one… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens.… — Robert C. Maynard Copy Share Image
My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Everyone has a bowling story. I love bowling because you can do it at age 2 - my son started when he… — Diandra Asbaty Copy Share Image
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Earlier this week - this is crazy - the country's first marijuana cafe opened up, which not only sells medical marijuana, but… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old,… — Ralph McGill Copy Share Image
I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll… — David Mazzucchelli Copy Share Image
We used to go to movies to see stories about ourselves. It would transport us to new worlds and we'd see aspects… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
Arnold Schwarzenegger is in some trouble. Today, the Los Angeles Times broke a story that quoted six women who claimed that Arnold… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology,… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
