The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
When media "narratives" about [Pope] Francis get set in concrete, and act as filters bending or distorting (or ignoring) aspects of his… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it… — Bill Gosper Copy Share Image
Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
The Revelations is an amazing, rich material that is full of stories about angels and angels being sent down to Earth to… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I look at a pilot and go, "I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
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a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story',… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
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Whenever you’re down on your luck, and when things aren’t going the way you like, remember that you are the author of… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
One of my first jobs was in a soap opera, five days a week. And what I found is, although there are… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would… — Steve Saint Copy Share Image
Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
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