#stories

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. ↗

— Marie de France

#authority #dead #divers #down #fashions

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know? ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#articles #fallen #few #go #i

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause. ↗

— Al Franken

#agenda #also #bias #brand #cause

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#come #fact #getting #go #i

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good? ↗

— Matt Stone

#goofy #inspire #make #nice #people

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. ↗

— Rex Stout

#ball #ball game #ballplayers #detective #detective stories

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#died #families #father #his #how

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker. ↗

— Spike Lee

#filmmaker #films #i #live #new

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? ↗

— Tanith Lee

#fiction #genres #non-fiction #only #perhaps

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing. ↗

— Eric Lefkofsky

#big #big success #big thing #facebook #ideas