Bases Quote by Francis Ford Coppola

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and…

— Francis Ford Coppola

The moment that most fascinated me in Ursula Le Guin's 'The Lathe of Heaven' was its descriptions of times of transition from one reality…

— Mark Fisher

I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as…

— Stephen King

“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those wonders.”

— Dorothy Allison

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I…

— Jean M. Auel

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell…

— Charles Guggenheim

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. It is an adventure, a storybook with each chapter a new tale. An unknown…

— Allie McLaughlin

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping…

— Bob Shacochis

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

— Marie Rutkoski

Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through. We can…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who…

— Charlotte Bronte