#tories

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice. ↗

— Ken Burns

#finished #hours #i #jazz #justice

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. ↗

— Laura Bush

#books #fascinating #goes #hand-in-hand #holding

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. ↗

— Michael Caine

#accent #always #american #american cinema #any

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end. ↗

— Jane Campion

#behind #each #end #in the end #know

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

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#all night #also #am #attention #awake

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#american #big #book #conspiracy #family

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time. ↗

— Joan Collins

#away #because #compositions #i #little

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society. ↗

— Ann Curry

#affect #difference #drives #hear #i

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

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