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We don't know our own story.

News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience.

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it.

Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in fantasy fiction for young readers-you've found it!

Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about these very obsessive characters. It's just an anomaly.

I always hope that the artwork will complement and enrich a story.

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

I've always been a big fan of Guillermo del Toro, 'Pan's Labryinth' blew me away. The stories and the worlds that he's created, he is truly a visionary!

I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.

Bringing Mid-World to a new readership felt like a big responsibility, but I'm so glad that readers have enjoyed the story. That is a reward in itself.

I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.

I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

There are many more good stories about Jaye Davidson.

["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

The Maigret stories are all very different in terms of the content and the way that the stories are told. They're not what I would call formulaic.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

I probably write the same story a hundred different ways. I suppose right now I am looking for the 101st different way to write that same story. And the 102nd, and 103rd and 111th and 133rd.

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

[Donald Trump] is saying that these stories of A-listers turning him down, "We're not asking 'em. I want the people at my inauguration." And I think that's probably true.

[H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?

Hillary [Clinton] doesn't have a fascinating story to get behind. She doesn't fascinating story to tell. The only thing about Hillary is, you know, "first female president."

The MacGuffin in that [Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky story] was [Bill] Clinton staying in office. That's what he wanted, and the media was hell-bent that he was gonna get what he wanted.

Every New York Times story [about Donald Trump] is the result of the organizational efforts of Barack Obama.

Hillary Clinton's been around for 30 years. Why do these stories need to be told? It isn't all of this widely known?

I was a normal kid. I rebelled. But I've never been a liberal. And there have been all kinds of efforts to make me one. I've not bothered to tell any of these stories. Folks, we all face them.

Every news agency basically is identical. Now, they may not report stories in the same order, and they may not report stories in the same day, but they all report the same thing about every story.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.