#tories

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#countries #fortitude #incredible #lot #myths

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. ↗

— Arthur Christiansen

#cannot #first #first time #flow #good

There are many victories worse than a defeat. ↗

— George Eliot

#many #than #victories #worse

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#mark #mind #second-rate #stories #telling

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#everyone #fascinates #films #genuinely #groups

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#along #book #business #decided #finally

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#better #book #college #complete #days

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dead #dream #drop #eyes #factories

Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

#cops #exciting #first #first time #hunt

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#george #george washington #grade #grade school #much