The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides.… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters.… — William Devane Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing...… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for… — Kim Swift Copy Share Image
[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I… — Bonnie McFarlane Copy Share Image
Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering.… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The story of Judith. But one of the reasons I'm doing it is because the roles I've been writing for myself over… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
As someone who is obsessed with fashion, I personally own non-vegan materials and am very open about that. I don't think it's… — Jeffree Star Copy Share Image
The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
We have to get the federal government out of the business of educating our kids and telling us how to do it.… — Liz Cheney Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, great marketing is all about telling your story in such… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
“The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
“We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It turned out so well because it was the first album that I could identify with in terms of lyrics. ("Captain Fantastic")… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
First of all I have to ask myself what am I trying to say and who am I trying to tell the… — Steve Bunce Copy Share Image
“When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
![“[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were there, they found the fossilized excrement of a lion that had turned into stone, and we would immediately start to concoct stories. Was it a lion that killed the early human? Of…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/569/werner-herzog-964_courses_tim-white-always-spoke-about-his-work-in_303632.jpg)
![“[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other…” quote by Charles Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e8/charles-kingsley-1896_character_at-the-end-of-the-story-its-main-charact_1140686.jpg)
![“In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends. . . . Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright's very powerful story.” quote by Darryl Pinckney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/344/darryl-pinckney-19796_accomplish_in-her-excellent-entirely-readable-richa_1194431.png)
![“One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten…” quote by J. R. R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e14/j-r-r-tolkien-2-1316_botany_one-writes-such-a-story-the-lord-of-the_2687967.png)
