#stories

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy. ↗

— Boris Becker

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I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

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I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

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Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling. ↗

— Neil Jordan

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I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories. ↗

— Thomas Keller

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When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. ↗

— David E. Kelley

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You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. ↗

— R. Kelly

#carpet #director #doing #even #i

For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

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