#stories

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#been #course #histories #history #individual

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#about #hope #long #more #our

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it. ↗

— Anne Rice

#conscious #created #i #i may not #inspire

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up. ↗

— Ann Richards

#children #choking #come #drawing #families

After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#brother #came #characters #did #door

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#certain point #i #i think #kinds #need

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#been #done #everything #i #made

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories. ↗

— Marguerite Moreau

#different people #good #good stories #i #interested

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#getting #i #i can #makes #sense