Bruce Quote by Bruce Feiler

Hopefully we are emerging from an era of fantasy explanations for real phenomena. The authors certainly have to face a community of therapists who…

— Patrick David Wall

Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a…

— Dorothy Allison

I had a classic case of what people call "seeker's disease." That was part of my journey, but now, meaning is like a secret…

— Roger Housden

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am…

— William Trevor

It's not what a person learns, but what story they tell themselves, that disorders their life.

— Cv Pillay

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.

— Kelly Ripa

It's not what a person learns, but what story they're telling themself, that disorders their life.

— Cv Pillay

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple…

— John Updike

Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a…

— Jonathan Swift

“Although the telling of our story is a learning tool, we must use caution lest we are swept away in the compulsive momentum of…

— Kim Lincoln

I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these crazy experiences…

— Steve Toltz

I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and…

— Jesmyn Ward