How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
For those that have said I seemed dickish to some of the nuttier guests on Joe Rogan Questions Everything - guilty as… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past… The Bible's "Israel" is a… — Thomas L. Thompson Copy Share Image
Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the… — William Greider Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just… — Eva Fuka Copy Share Image
My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
It was such an amazing experience to be able to spend nine days on a boat with these Greenpeace people. Some of… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits,… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you see people who… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing…… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
What was interesting to me was how they actually went to 9/11 and they chose that as part of his back story… — Brian Wayne Peterson Copy Share Image
There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's'… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
I try not to think of myself as a woman filmmaker. I don't look for women influences. I have noticed in the… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time.… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
