#stories

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#after #another #bars #conducted #getting

They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#convinced #go #i #injunction #may

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#bought #cheap #combined #folk #i

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#absent #advances #although #awareness #been

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#big #corners #days #ghost #ghost stories

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#dramatic #education #effects #following #human

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#alive #always #am #being #daughter

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#crafted #hear #i #immediacy #lot

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things. ↗

— Janis Ian

#fiction #fiction writing #good #good luck #had

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