Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He's the coolest.… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a… — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believe in a lot of… — Emanuel Steward Copy Share Image
I've been doing morning pages: the first thing I do when I wake up is sit down and write three pages of… — T. Mills Copy Share Image
I have a writing space in my apartment, but I prefer to write at coffee shops. When I'm stuck, I take a… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as… — Anthony Swofford Copy Share Image
I think filmmakers in general are, as the tools become more and more advanced, you're able to tell stories in a way… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also… — Kriti Sanon Copy Share Image
I hope I'll have the opportunity to debate how we reform and update our immigration system. I will relate my own story… — Ami Bera Copy Share Image
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It really ups your production value when you have one person that you can use as your avatar through a story, but… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Almost no one as I think most leadership books are a joke. They are, as I note in Leadership BS, frequently based… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The… — Heather Anastasiu Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“The things of this world are vessels, entrances for stories; when we touch them or tumble into them, we fall into their… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
