I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go… — David Copy Share Image
Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter."… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the… — Ed McClanahan Copy Share Image
“It was weird because my first couple stories had been so easy. Now it was like, the more you did it, the… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys'… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories?… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
The thing to me that's fun is trying to make the characters seem believable, or realistic. And it's especially challenging when you're… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Comedy doesn't come easy for me. I've only done 2 movies that are really comedy-style films and I have to work at… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
Without the silence that follows the chants, you get only half the story. It's like the climax of a good story. The… — Deva Premal Copy Share Image
For me, if God blessed me with that one great hit, I'm satisfied. But I've still got a lot in me, and… — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Cinematic and symphonic: this is a compelling story revealed in a sequence of voices that are as pitch-perfect as they are irresistible.… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
Read the script as a fan and try to create this community in your head. That's the thing that a lot of… — Chris Zylka Copy Share Image
If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The stories I always see about a first-generation kid trying to erase where they came from, or trying to just be white,… — Ramy Youssef Copy Share Image
If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this is just a springboard for when I'm… — Mark de Mori Copy Share Image
My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that… — Tabitha Soren Copy Share Image
I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
