“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“I believe stories have a will of their own, one that surpasses in volition that of their teller. In realms of Storytelling,… — Ibraheem Hamdi Copy Share Image
I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
The bigger story here is that the fabric of the Net has changed; it’s a place for people to connect up around… — Steve Rubel Copy Share Image
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
The longest-serving Republican Senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, found guilty just a few hours ago on all charges in his corruption trial. Do… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before… — Sameh Elsayed Copy Share Image
A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
I think the second, or outsider's, perspective can come as you layer a story. It's as though you've grabbed a secondary character… — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, 'What the Hell was… — Allen Covert Copy Share Image
Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don't find that… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema. There's always been fame, there's always been the caveman… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Next to Joel on the beach was Martha. Two years back in time she had been Joel’s bimbo. That’s because Joel was… — Stephen Deck Copy Share Image
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
I don't really get attached to anything. I'm pretty brutal about cutting stuff. With each successful movie, I've discovered anything that's not… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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