#stories

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#fact #feature #get #gravitated #i

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#because #else #i #like #many

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#certain things #joy #off #pull #reward

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#just #knew #stories #tell #wanted

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#created #just #press #stories #story

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private. ↗

— Amy Tan

#aesthetic #art #become #craft #first

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#am #i #i am #identity #interested

Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people over at Pixar. I mean, as far as stories are concerned, almost everything we have could be told that way. ↗

— Joe Grant

#almost #am #as far as #chicken #close

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#i #inappropriate #jokes #laugh #make

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. ↗

— John Gunther

#city #comparison #copy #crime #crooks