#story

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#good memory #haven #hopes #memory #other

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. ↗

— Stephen King

#busy #closely #coming #good #good story

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#crush #day #different #different way #every

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#each #i #nearly #pretty #sings

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#get #history #imperfect #job #journalist

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#idea #keen #life #outside #own

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#american #american history #burn #did #down

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#family #family history #good #history #i

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#any #did #ever #harm #i

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy. ↗

— Sofia Coppola

#i #love #love story #make #nerdy