“For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.” LongStoriesHandsActorsVoiceActingPathHeardProjectsUniqueDevelopingMinoritiesUnique Voices Author:Jimmy Smits
“All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.” MadeTwoEndsStoriesPathSuccessfulCenturyTerribleErrorsRuinsSavagesJaneReckless19th CenturyDownfallHubrisAusten Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.” WritingStoriesLiteratureWalksStepsPathWalkingCompact Book:The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Source: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
“It's really a lot of fun to see that this music can actually survive, that it can be concert music. My solo shows are already going along that path. You have the freedom to basically push to party, or you can tell a story from nothing with soundscapes, moving images, to a real party mood. At some concerts, people get out of their seats and start dancing after a while.” PeopleRealStoriesShowsMovingFunPartyPathDancingMoodSeatsConcertsSolo Author:Pantha du Prince
“I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.” IfsKnowsWayWritingFirstsBelieveLongBookStoriesWould BeSidesPathSeaStyleFlowerConsciousOriginalsSilentPatternsDisasterDustDozenLong AgoBeatenWonderlandImitatorHigh RoadStory Book Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales
“For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote went rapidly out of print and stayed there, I wised up and started assembling them in e-format editions...” WorldYearsBookStoriesPathBeatsDecadesPrintFormatAssembling Author:Scott Bradfield
“I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I organize my pieces not just around people but around animals and plants, energy flows, the path that carbon takes through the food system.” PeopleHardCharacterHelpingStoriesUseEnergyAnimalPathPiecesFindingsFlowPlantOrganizeCarbonGood CharacterEnergy Flow Author:Michael Pollan
“I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.” MadeStoriesPastRealizingMistakePathDrawsMy FriendsTwentiesGladHorribleRocketsSetbackMy PastTrajectoryHorrible Things Author:Chuck Palahniuk