#stories

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#book #exploit #great #hold #i

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. ↗

— Dave Barry

#am #faces #fact #feel #happy

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#beginning #end #forgotten #how #middle

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#being #certain #confusions #disappointments #feel

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#collection #effects #father #finished #holiday

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it. ↗

— Aaron Carter

#chopped #cut #get #make #media

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go. ↗

— Charlotte Church

#got #just #lot #some #stories

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#head #help #i #i do #life

I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#big #bore #club #fire #going

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. ↗

— Joel Coen

#background #community #everything #growing #growing up