#stories

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#comedy #did #director #exactly #job

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all. ↗

— Barry Hannah

#come #concern #form #nowhere #out

The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come. ↗

— Jonathan Rosen

#prayer #stories #talmud #death

I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation. ↗

— Ray Harryhausen

#brought #i #just #many #ny times

If being queer meant loving Aaron, then he'd own the label, at least internally. ↗

— Tibby Armstrong

#coming-out-stories #gay-romance #love

One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories. ↗

— Bill Williams

#already #bring #chunks #great #i

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#being #career #cent #early #earn

Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#administration #anonymous #best #gotten #i

I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#finish #four #got #had #i

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#above #am #compelling #desire #everything