#stories

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#age #around #ball #compelling #convincingly

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#least #love #love stories #stories #think

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

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#hardest #i #i always #like #obviously

Some stories are true that never happened. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#happened #never #some #stories #true

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#character #guy #hear #i #intense

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

#arcane #due #failures #four #i

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy. ↗

— Boris Becker

#autobiography #close #coming #honesty #much

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#best #closer #different #form #i

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#attention #careful #commonality #exchange #find