Aside from being a Latina, my family immigrated from Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia so I know all about that. I wouldn’t be… — Naya Rivera Copy Share Image
I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils;… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and… — Candace Fleming Copy Share Image
[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
If everybody can author their own story, if media is democratizing because everybody can make a really good-looking website... that's the way… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I love ghost stories, and I also have a great fondness and love for 'Quatermass,' which in many ways is the show… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one...… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
The commission had to subpoena the F.A.A. for documents, had to subpoena NORAD for documents and they will never get the full… — Max Cleland Copy Share Image
These are the moments. These are the moments where you realize love is everywhere if you look closely. When you realize happiness… — Camila Cabello Copy Share Image
I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these… — Roel Reine Copy Share Image
The format of the book was the idea of my wonderful editor, Stephen Segal. Stephen and I had worked together before, on… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
My job, as I see it, is to give you a window into another world and another story, and then to be… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love… — Eric Carr Copy Share Image
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been… — Evan Mandery Copy Share Image
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
When an American declares bankruptcy, when he hits bottom, he can reinvent himself. There's a story he can tell. We tolerate reinvention.… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all… — Angela Bettis Copy Share Image
With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist.… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean,… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image