#stories

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

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#action #because #bit #comedy #dance

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#bible #cartoons #doing #first #i

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

— Michael Bergdahl

#his #illustrative #master #reinforce #sam

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#book #choose #every #four #go

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#comics #dc #first #horror #house

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#around #back #books #fact #far

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#century #dense #filled #helium #i

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#fortunately #girl #i #like #likes

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#people #rather #stories