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When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.
I have heard so many stories of contractors, and I've met some, too, who worked for Donald Trump, produced the goods and services and never got paid for what they were owed.
The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.
In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.
I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.
I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.
What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.
Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals
Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
You had bands like D.O.A., or Black Flag, and a whole network opened up to trailblazer a counter culture movement. I'm more interested in the less sensational type of stories.
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.
I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once a day, I really feel like something is not completed. This is, like, an attraction story.
Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled.
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.
Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.
When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.
