#stories

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#i #primarily #stories #tell #want

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

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. ↗

— Charles W. Colson

#almost #figure #first #impossible #next

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire. ↗

— David Copperfield

#educate #help #help people #i #inspire

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories. ↗

— Jared Leto

#direct #direct contact #fans #hear #kinds

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#history #i #i love #interesting #interesting stories

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

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