#stories

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes. ↗

— Albert Finney

#changes #elaboration #give #insists #more

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#credible #deny #either #hebrews #hero

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. ↗

— Judy Blume

#creative #creative process #enjoy #i #process

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. ↗

— Judy Blume

#anything #become #could #even #grow

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#depth #doing #i #i think #important

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#mark #mind #second-rate #stories #telling

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#bloom #burst #go #happen #hope

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actually #autobiographical #confused #get #i

There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#acknowledged #amazing #been #contribution #country

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#acts #ago #autobiographical #before #begin