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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
Ian Mcewan

Said, Read, Somebody

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
Ian Mcewan

Understand, Ways, Spin

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.
Greg Kinnear

Good, Hard, Find

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?
Richard Russo

Thinking, Keep, Might

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.
Richard Russo

Different, Child, Parent

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.
Richard Russo

Writing, America, American

Country music has the great stories.
Etta James

Music, Great, Country

I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.'
Mike Wallace

Important, Done, Leader

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
Chelsea Clinton

Life, Work, Hope

For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit my family of characters faster than I can write them. For them, I am willing to make a change to my working methods so the stories in my head can reach the page more frequently.
Wilbur Smith

Change, Family, Past

My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand - and started to make them up myself.
Wilbur Smith

Wonderful, Her, She

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.
Wilbur Smith

Life, Work, May

I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy; reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.
Wilbur Smith

Women, Great, Men

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
Nicholas Sparks

Love, Writing, Made

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
Lee Child

Crime, British, Geography

For me, if God blessed me with that one great hit, I'm satisfied. But I've still got a lot in me, and I'd still like to get out there and tell a lot more stories cinematically. And God willing, I'll get the chance to do that.
Steven Seagal

Great, God, Blessed

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.
Tommy Lee Jones

Put, Tell, Actor

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
Robert Rodriguez

Everything, Done, Made

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
Dan Fogelberg

Great, Tell, Musicians

All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that's on telly.
Graham Norton

Life, Nothing, Before

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
Albert Brooks

American, Days, Fiction

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
Albert Brooks

Big, Around, Walking

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
John Irving

Writing, Keep, Write

I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.
Colin Farrell

Home, End, Laugh

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

Sea, Countries, Fortitude

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.
Emily Mortimer

Funny, Before, Chance

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
Al Franken

Help, Republican, Party

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.
Julian Assange

Time, Important, Write

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
Kate Adie

Nothing, Reporter, Selection

I think we think in terms of stories.
David Mitchell

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