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Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.

Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.

Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language -- it's from the Latin word "cor," meaning "heart" - and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

Create a story of WOW that will be retold.

Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)

Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you.

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going.

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her days examining fabric swatches for bridesmaid dresses and going on about how in love she is. This usually causes Agent Boring Borscht to regale us with stories of Russian weddings that are even more boring than his usual ones. My attempts at escape have been thwarted thus far. Also, I am out of cigarettes. Any assistance or tobacco products you can send will be greatly appreciated. -Prisoner 24601

Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it.

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it doesn't demand songs, you'll have underscore.

Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That's one kick-ass dragon. It's basically a giant puppy dragon.

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it’s very hard to ignore what he’s done to them. I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.

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

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?

[Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who became the villains? What Trump wanted became the story. "Will he get it? Will Trump get to 1,237?" Did not Ted Cruz become a villain in the middle of this by virtue of trying to stop the hero by getting delegates in all of the state conventions?

Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at procrastination. But mostly research teaches me about the world. Which often shows me the way, in terms of the story.

[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.