I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal… — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to… — Rhea Seehorn Copy Share Image
I think it's a great thing to hear the author reading. I've listened to CDs of Cheever and Updike reading their stories… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story,… — Kim Jee-woon Copy Share Image
I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When I do watch shows, or projects that I've been a part of, I'm pretty good at watching them objectively. And that's… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
It's all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories… — Donald T. Regan Copy Share Image
I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We're sending you best wishes And hope your day goes well And that you'll find some memories With stories you can tell… — Janet Horne Copy Share Image
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