I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his,… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
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I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
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No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an… — Steve Dildarian Copy Share Image
I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Many of the early greats of sf Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular saw themselves as educators. The… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below).… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their faces--sometimes it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process.… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
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I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
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Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual… — Jane Cleland Copy Share Image
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The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century… — Geza Vermes Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan,… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
There were stories coming out of Thailand that slave labor was being used to catch and process the seafood we eat. They… — Lourdes Garcia-Navarro Copy Share Image
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The cover story of the magazine [TIME magazine] depicting a few individuals who are acting contrary to most Myanmar, is creating misconceptions… — Thein Sein Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a healer, it's not enough to read books and learn allegorical stories. you need to get your… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I have very strong Canadian connections. My daughter was born there a year and half ago. But because of the nature of… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
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