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
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
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary… — Daryn Kagan 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
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
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
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
While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families,… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it,… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live… — Ben Okri 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you… — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their… — Valerie Bertinelli Copy Share Image
The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places… — James Herbert 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
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
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
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
“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
I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
![“While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The coast wants to have nothing to do with the interior; it wants to work with Tokyo and New York. This is an old story in China. It is why Mao succeeded in 1927. He wanted [coastal]…” quote by George Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/george-friedman-7436_army_while-certain-coastal-cities-have-become_1268579.png)
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