Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much… — Thomas Langmann Copy Share Image
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Stories of friendship are very interesting to me. Artificial families are something I like to explore. Whether it's a bunch of guys… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting,… — Richard Helms Copy Share Image
As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore,… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
It’s kind of like, I would say, maybe college recruiting. I’m pretty sure a lot more goes into it in the NBA.… — Rajon Rondo Copy Share Image
I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A… — Raffaella Barker Copy Share Image
The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down… — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward,… — Dan Scanlon Copy Share Image
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
It was mix tapes, that's my story, I did a lot of mix tapes, that's what I started doing when I was… — Slim Thug Copy Share Image
“People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the… — Ann Bancroft Copy Share Image
Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who… — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
I got very lucky to work with Wes Craven, very early on in my career, and continued to work with Wes for… — Patrick Lussier Copy Share Image
“For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
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