“All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.” MenWritingLongSaidStoriesCoursesFoundSleepClearMissingChangedDrugDetailsOne ManLinksDrsCabinetsJekyll Book:The complete short stories Source: The complete short stories
“There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.” PeopleThinkingWantImportantRealCharacterStoriesBigsWantedStarsHappenedTelevisionDrugHappeningsInstrumentsPlot80s Author:Jessica Pare
“Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.” MadeStoriesVoiceTermDarkWorryRecordsPiecesTroubleHeardHeroDrugPrisonPreparedBackgroundsComebackMy HeroSpoken WordHerons Author:Will Hermes
“Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the astounding progress of biomedical science during the second half of the 20th century.” StoriesFatherHalfProgressCenturyDrugAchievementResearchAccountsWideFascinating20th CenturyHistoricEnjoyableBiomedical Author:Arvid Carlsson
“There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.” StoriesRomanceUsedOur LivesCrimeLonelinessDangerDrugDrinkingPetty Author:Joey Comeau
“I carry a strong anti-drug message, and it's important young people especially hear a "real" story about addiction and how it affects not only the addict but also the people who love him/her, rather than "just say no."” PeopleImportantRealStoriesYoungStrongDrugMessagesAddictionAddictReal StoryJust Say No Author:Ellen Hopkins
“On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.” IfsYearsStoriesRunningFeetDrugIncludingDetailsEightDivorceFlyingPlanesShirtsSeatsExcessT ShirtLapDarlingLife StoryRehabTestosteroneKeep RunningVery Sweet Author:Rosanne Cash
“So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.” PeopleWantImportantEndsStoriesHandsPowerfulBehindsLaughingComedyBecomingDrugSkillsAddictionHorribleMaking People LaughDrug AddictionDrug AddictMolestationBeginning Writers Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless did not become pregnant at thirteen . . . and who did not smoke anything stronger than an occasional Camel or Lucky Strike. . . . It took a combination of unsupervised children and a permissive, highly charged sexual atmosphere and an influx of easily acquired drugs and the wherewithal to buy them to bring about precocious experimentation by young and younger children. This occurred in the mid-seventies.” ChildrenStoriesYoungDrugLuckyStrongerStrikesSmokeCombinationAtmosphereDeclinePregnantNeverthelessSeventiesOccasionalExperimentationThirteenCamelsSupervisionPrecocious Author:Marie Winn
“My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.” I CanStatesStoriesRealityPoliticalUniverseDealsNovelWrittenParticularDrugMajorsConceptsRadicalThemeTrendsFascismSociologyPreoccupationPsychoticMultiverse Author:Philip K. Dick
“Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? ..I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person’s experience-and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer. That is the power of cinema: ‘stars’, story-lines and entertainment have nothing to do with it.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindPersonsArtTwoPlayStoriesLostStarsHoursLinesRoomsWatchesDrugShadowEntertainmentCinemaSheets Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted, but I'm not. So what happened to me is I suddenly had an extra-long attention span. People would tell me a story, and it would end, and I'd get all mad. "Come on, man, there has to be more to that story."” PeopleMenLongEndsStoriesHumorFunnyAttentionHappenedDrugMadExtrasDisorderDeficitAttention SpanAttention Deficit Disorder Author:Mitch Hedberg
“As you may know from my life story, my cousin who was my soul mate went to a public school. And he died of AIDS. Would I and my brother have been able to resist the lure of drugs in the surrounding schools? Who knows.” KnowsMayHas BeensSoulStoriesAbleSchoolBrotherDrugDiedAidsMy SoulMy BrotherMatesCousinPublic SchoolSoul MateLife StoryLureMy CousinMy Soul Mate Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.” Has BeensStoriesFilmFormDrugEatingAbuseFeaturesThemeDisorderDocumentariesAlcoholismEating Disorder Author:Sanna Lenken
“I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.” PeopleKnowsStoriesSpeakDrug Author:Ruben Blades
“If you go to a network and say, "I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women," you're not gonna make a sale. But, if you've got this blonde girl going to prison, you can get in there, and then you can tell all the stories. I just thought it was a terrific gateway drug into all the things I wanted to get into.” IfsStoriesWantedGirlBlackDrugPrisonBlack WomenTerrificLatinoBlondeOld WomanGatewaysBlonde Girl Author:Jenji Kohan
“I think everybody did their share of experimenting in the 1960s with drugs. My story is real simple. I was taking amphetamines in the late 60s and I was addicted to them. I don't necessarily know the why. I'm sure at the time I could've told you six different reasons why I was doing it. But, in the end, all of that stuff, all chemicals will hurt you.” ThinkingKnowsDifferentRealEndsReasonStoriesStuffHurtSimpleShareDrugSixLateReason WhyChemicals1960sAmphetamines Author:Tommy James
“In the "Personal Story" segment tonight, the state of Oregon is extremely liberal in its state government and judicial system.That state has lenient drug laws, including wide access to medical marijuana.” StatesStoriesGovernmentLawDrugIncludingWideAccessMedicalTonightMarijuanaJudicialState GovernmentOregonMedical MarijuanaJudicial SystemPersonal StoriesLenientDrug Laws Author:Bill O'Reilly
“The AMA is urging the Federal Government not to classify marijuana as a dangerous drug and do more research. That's what they said. It's a big story, yeah. Yeah, that request came not only from the AMA but also from KFC.” SaidStoriesBigsGovernmentDangerousDrugResearchYeahMarijuanaThey SaidFederal GovernmentRequestKfcDangerous Drugs Author:Conan O'Brien
“From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.” HumansChildrenStoriesSufferingSituationClearSadnessDyingEasierDrugAbuseAgreeAddictionStartingIllnessRanEtcMisfortunesShort StoryLoved OnesChild AbusePersonal ExperiencesDrug AddictionHindsightDrug AddictStarting OutTerminalHuman SufferingTerminal IllnessLoved One Dying Author:Anthony Marra
“We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.” KnowsFeelsWellsMayChildrenStoriesLightEnergyFictionProduceEmotionalDrugAbuseResponseAddictionIllnessChild AbuseDrug AddictionDrug AddictTerminalEmotional ResponseTerminal Illness Author:Anthony Marra
“Kim Kardashian is a kind of archetype. But she owns her beauty and is tremendously successful. There's no tragedy, there's no drug story. There's just her and her fame and her beauty. But Anna Nicole created that template of somebody that you'd want to watch on reality TV. Somebody that you'd want to invite into your home or as a role model, in terms of beauty and lifestyle and glamour.” WantKindStoriesHomeRealityTermRolesWatchesSuccessfulTvsDrugFameModelsTragedyLifestyleRole ModelsInvitesGlamourAnnaKimReality TvArchetypeHer BeautyNicole Author:Margaret Cho
“When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But my story is a little unique in that I realized when I was 14 years old that I was different. I think a lot of gay people use drugs and alcohol to quell that fear and shame - especially people of my age.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingYearsLittlesBookDifferentStoriesUseAgeActorsLostGayDrugUniqueShameAlcoholI RealizedGay PeopleDrugs And Alcohol Author:Leslie Jordan
“India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.” IfsWritingFirstsStoriesLiteratureSexAudienceEconomyGrowing UpGrowingMagicInfluenceRevolutionDrugFirst TimeIndiaWesternOpeningIndianDramaticRealismOpening UpSlumsPartitionMagic Realism Author:Karan Bajaj
“It [Moonlight movie] deals with drug addiction, drug dealing, and single parenthood, but they are three dimensional characters. You understand where they are from and what they are trying to do with their lives. It is not a stereotype that has been pasted onto somebody. These are stories that come from Barry's [ Jenkins] and Tarell's [Alvin McCraney] mothers.” TryingHas BeensCharacterStoriesMotherThreeDealsDrugAddictionParenthoodStereotypeMoonlightDrug AddictionDrug AddictSingle Parent Author:Andre Holland
“[Jack Nash from The Andromeda Strain] was not in the original film, but he was kind of a Geraldo Rivera almost kind of reporter that had a drug addiction. We start the story in rehab, and then he gets the roots of the story. I loved him.” KindStoriesFilmDrugRootsOriginalsAddictionReportersStrainDrug AddictionDrug AddictRehabAndromeda Author:Eric McCormack
“[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.” KnowsBookStoriesLife IsFallSexGriefTroubleRocksDrugMountainStressTheaterFalling In LoveTalesManagersRock And RollAnguishSan FranciscoPoloSex DrugsSex Drugs And Rock And Roll Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.” StoriesDrugNewspapersBreakthroughNew DayParkinsonParkinson's Author:Mort Kondracke
“A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.” InspirationalBookPlayStoriesCreativityDrugEscapismArtistryGreat Book Author:Wentworth Miller
“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.” WritingTryingLittlesMatterStoriesRealityFoundImagineHavensProudDrugSittingGoing OutDesksBizarreHighwaysLittle TimeWeirdness Book:Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson