#tories

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#age #around #ball #compelling #convincingly

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#least #love #love stories #stories #think

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

— Robert Rodriguez

#been #done #everything #i #made

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#hardest #i #i always #like #obviously

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #book #day #five #garden

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#century #country #greatest #know #security

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script. ↗

— Clive Owen

#be true #believer #books #done #great

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#black #few #figures #film #get

I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#black #britain #certain #going #had

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cartoonist #comics #crumb #decided #going