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I try to tell a story musically in a song.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film

Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?

All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed. Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet. When you're young smelling of pigshit and convinced there ain't a weapon in all the damn world that's going to hurt you, all stories do is make you want to be part of them.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important._x000D_ It's to find out if you're going to be a writer or not, because that's one of the most important lessons._x000D_ Most, maybe 90% of people, will start writing and never finish what they started. If you want to be a writer that's the hardest and most important lesson: Finish it. Then go back to fix it.

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.

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.

Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome - and even comforting - than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.

The quest for the truth, in and of itself,_x000D_Is a story that's filled with insights.

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

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.

If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.

I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

The world you see is just a movie in your mind._x000D_Rocks dont see it._x000D_Bless and sit down._x000D_Forgive and forget._x000D_Practice kindness all day to everybody_x000D_and you will realize you’re already_x000D_in heaven now._x000D_That’s the story._x000D_That’s the message._x000D_Nobody understands it,_x000D_nobody listens, they’re_x000D_all running around like chickens with heads cut_x000D_off. I will try to teach it but it will_x000D_be in vain, s’why I’ll_x000D_end up in a shack_x000D_praying and being_x000D_cool and singing_x000D_by my woodstove_x000D_making pancakes.