#tories

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#compare #developed #films #find #habit

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#century #familiar #first-hand #i #i write

Some stories are true that never happened. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#happened #never #some #stories #true

The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#cooperation #different #factions #lebanon #military

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

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#always #domestic #factories #had #job

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#bottom #defeats #fellows #top #victories

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #book #day #five #garden