The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
“You have a long history," he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. "Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that… — Fred Bodsworth Copy Share Image
If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I am getting ready to cross a street, I look both ways before crossing. My bones, my muscles, are not what… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are dreams inside of me and those are mine and my guess is that they're there for a reason. But for… — Jamie Tworkowski Copy Share Image
You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“History is a funny little creature. Do you remember visiting your old Aunt that autumn when the trees shone so very yellow,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
You do not have to have money to attract money, but you cannot feel poor and attract money. The key is, you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Sometimes in a relationship, we can be so caught up in our feelings for the other person that we squeeze God into… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I was interested first of all in trying to capture this myth that was always changing and to create some sort of… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every… — Barry Leiba Copy Share Image
I don't tend to work directly from life, except in trying to mimic or match the outlines of its insanity. In other… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a… — James Keller Copy Share Image
Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Guinevere and Arthur's story is so about the passion. It's about the sexual attraction between them. You can't have that story and… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
Comics are expensive. Don’t make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
The test for me, when I read other people's scripts, is whether I feel like there's something about me that is the… — Francesca Gregorini Copy Share Image
Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
