#stories

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.' ↗

— Walter Mosley

#fall #first #going #hbo #i

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #art #be a man #beauty #beings

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. ↗

— Alice Munro

#feel #i #i feel #know #learned

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. ↗

— Alice Munro

#keep #memory #other #our #ourselves

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#conclusions #every #i #i think #japan

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#father #fought #generation #happened #i

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#contain #first #kinetic #matter #me

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#becoming #father #me #read #right

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#interesting #interesting stories #just #present #qualify