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I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
Donna Tartt

Long, Sure, Except

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.
Andy Serkis

Good, Kids, Playing

There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasn't even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic.
Shane Warne

Life, True, Place

I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.
Joel Schumacher

Hope, Young, Tell

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
Michael Morpurgo

Read, Might, Books

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.
Michael Morpurgo

Love, Children, Parents

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.
Michael Morpurgo

Music, Mother, Words

I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.
Michael Morpurgo

Great, Best, Deep

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.
Michael Morpurgo

School, Focus, Important

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.
Michael Morpurgo

Knowing, Head, Fill

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!
Carol Vorderman

Home, Building, Retirement

Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.
Amy Poehler

Time, Good, Someone

I started writing stories as a child.
Danielle Steel

Writing, Child, Started

There are very few really stark black and white stories.
Jim Lehrer

Black, Few, White

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
Jim Lehrer

My stories are never quite good enough.
Anne Tyler

Good, Enough, Quite

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
John Green

Bored, Friends, Tell

The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
Rachel Maddow

Problem, Big, Whole

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Life, Real, Confused

I was an athlete growing up and I miss that. I miss hanging out with dudes and making raunchy jokes and telling stories, trading details, you know? There's something I really miss about that.
Chris Pratt

Making, Growing, Miss

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
Robert Morgan

Family, Find, Young

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.
Bob Schieffer

Time, Book, Idea

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.
Melissa Rosenberg

Tired, End, Long

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

Writing, Since, Actually

Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.
Conrad Black

Success, Hands, Muslim

I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.
Tom Colicchio

Great, Sometimes, Show

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.
John Grisham

Fun, Tell, Write

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.
John Grisham

Writing, Enjoy, Taking

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
Stanley Crouch

Made, Listen, Agree

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
Octavia Butler

Wanted, Tell, Knew

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