#tories

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#created #just #press #stories #story

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private. ↗

— Amy Tan

#aesthetic #art #become #craft #first

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#i #inappropriate #jokes #laugh #make

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. ↗

— John Gunther

#city #comparison #copy #crime #crooks

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are. ↗

— David Guterson

#compulsion #consider #deeply #duty #ethical

Tarot is just stories on cards. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#just #stories #tarot

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#been #digest #i #since #stories

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#always #artist #create #desire #even

I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#being #doing #fine #i #i see

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#because #definitely #embracing #exist #grown