#stories

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#books #finding #four #great #i

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked? ↗

— Richard Russo

#copies #doors #earlier #extant #genuine

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. ↗

— Richard Russo

#bring #child #different #does #dramatic

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing. ↗

— Eric San

#i #little #make #pencil #really

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years.But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#become #events #hear #hope #i

I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.' ↗

— Adam Sandler

#come #get #gets #go #great

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#characters #circle #common #families #family

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories. ↗

— John Sayles

#know #really #screenwriter #stories #such

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#came #clever #english #english language #game

I have broken a lot of stories. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#i #lot #stories