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 always wanted my kids to like me and think I was funny, so I made up this story about a kid… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And… — N.K. Jemisin 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 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 love sitting down with my friends at dinner and actually telling them a story, as opposed to going, "Hey, did you… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted… — Faith Hill Copy Share Image
We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I am in communication with almost everybody I've done a story about. I have a fantasy that if I ever strike it… — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder if he was not very consciously and deliberately choosing particular chapters of his life to tell, in order… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
The story we hear over and over again is: Boy in science class, very nice to the girl, says, "Please come to… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
One of the most common words in the invalidating, self-blaming stories we believe about ourselves or our situations is the word "should."… — William Hudson O'Hanlon 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
What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find… — Yasmine Galenorn 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 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
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
This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
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