As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy… — C. J. Box Copy Share Image
Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“What did the mat say to the door? You must be really aDOORable to open up to everyone who knock at you.… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
They're classic themes, which is why I think it's such a great story to look at again. The concept of being loyal… — Adrian Hodges Copy Share Image
There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Crazy Love is crazy good! Leslie What's brain is evidently crowded with strangeness, awfulness, wonderfulness, wildness, madness of all kinds...and love. Lots… — Molly Gloss Copy Share Image
I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences dont like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous… — Leslie Moonves Copy Share Image
Every story about Oprah Winfrey Network was that it was struggling.I literally had a come-to-Jesus meeting with myself to say, 'Lord, what… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story… — Mark Pendergrast Copy Share Image
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . .… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff… Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling… — Valerie Sayers Copy Share Image
There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have… — Jamie Bamber Copy Share Image
Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with… — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live.… — James Chace Copy Share Image
You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
I really hope it engenders a lot of conversation because I believe there are a lot of people who put on faces.… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
God has stepped in at the last minute more than once in history (remember Moses at the Red Sea?). And He can… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Today everyone, whether they know it or not, is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life.… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
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