As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Although it may not seem like it, this isn’t a story about darkness. It’s about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm… — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
It's possible I'm a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn't… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I have a lot of projects I get asked for, but the opera house really is my house - my home. It's… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But… — Lori Wilde Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
However, unlike some of my friends and students, I don't think it's a laughing matter. I think it is frightening to see… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
“[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr] [Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of… — Finn Aaserud Copy Share Image
I think it's good to have a balance. Everything I write about, it's not something I necessarily might have went through, there's… — Leon Bridges Copy Share Image
“If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and… — Erin Cressida Wilson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we shouldn't be displeased with the 'environmental ethics' we have or the 'business ethics' or the 'political ethics' or any of… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Because I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
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