I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a… — Melissa Peterman Copy Share Image
I like stories about people who have to go into darkness for a good reason and then have to figure out how… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought ,in my previous… — Jessica Clark Copy Share Image
I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Pace doesn't mean speed; it means the right speed. Diagnosis and cure are simple. If you've reached where you want to be… — Reginald Hill Copy Share Image
I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while… — paul murray Copy Share Image
Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
My music is very raw, it's emotional, and it's honest. I do my best to tell a story whenever I write music… — Adrian Marcel Copy Share Image
Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new -… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you… — Elizabeth Benedict Copy Share Image
I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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