#stories

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#i #interested #playwright #stories #telling

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem. ↗

— Alex Cox

#big #big problem #corporations #creates #dictate

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#getting #i #i love #love #paper

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive. ↗

— Emily VanCamp

#dramas #family #hard #keep #stories

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history. ↗

— Carson Daly

#cheap #course #greatest #had #history

There are no really new stories anymore. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#new #really #stories

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#great #like #more #musicians #other

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me. ↗

— David Walliams

#absolute #adult #book #books #charlie

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. ↗

— David Walliams

#bit #book #characters #depth #emotional