#tories

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege. ↗

— Tori Amos

#i #people #privilege #stories #telling

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#another #anything #because #chose #courses

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#detective stories #eventually #genres #humorous #i

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beginning #beings #chaotic #contrary #depressing

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#encourage #fine #long #people #stories

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#first #gray #kissing #linda #scene

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#enter #good #hemingway #his #into

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#anime #better #could #go #had

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them. ↗

— Carl Barks

#cynicism #did #get #had #hell

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#his #illustrative #master #reinforce #sam