„I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.“
Music America Interview
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„Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.“
— John Banville Irish writer 1945
Oblique dreamer (2000)
„I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.“
— Jason Statham English actor, film producer, martial artist and former diver 1967
„At this point in my life, I don’t worry about telling a literary story or the right story; I tell the story I want to tell, the story that makes me feel alive, the questions I want to answer.“
— Amulya Malladi Indian writer 1974
On not caring about what other people think about her writing in “An Interview with Amulya Malladi” http://jaggerylit.com/an-interview-with-amulya-malladi/ in Jaggery
„I've had about fifty people tell me that I fear intimacy. And it is true. I fear what people will think of me, and that is the reason I don't date very often. People really like me a lot when they only know me a little, but I have this great fear that if they knew me a lot they wouldn't like me. That is the number one thing that scares me about having a wife because she would have to know me pretty well in order to marry me and I think if she got to know me pretty well she wouldn't like me anymore.“
— Donald Miller, libro Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
„Boxing Helena was something that I think was pretty cool, but people judged it without even having seen it. It’s not perfect, but I think for the story that we were trying to tell, it turned out pretty good. What it signified was really powerful to me: how society puts us in boxes one way or another.“
— Sherilyn Fenn American actress 1965
Sherilyn Fenn, quoted in "Fenn & Now", by Dennis Hensley. Movieline (USA). June 1999. p. 54-59.
on starring in Boxing Helena.
„I’m me. I am a human being. Many things have been said about me. Many of these things have come from people’s own emotions, good or bad. I’m proud to be a human being. I am very happy that I have this life. I am also happy that I can feel joy and pain like everyone else. I’m happy being me. Some people would love to put labels on me, but I am just me.“
— Prem Rawat controversial spiritual leader 1957
Undated
Fuente: Conversation with Prem Rawat The Prem Rawat Foundation
„Oral tradition is really how Chicano literature came to be. I was not exposed to the written word, but I had the greatest teacher. I always tell people that my mother was my inspiration because she was the best chismosa, and she had the best stories. And if anyone taught me about drama, it was my mother because she knew how to tell a story. And my grandfather also told stories. One of the reasons why I waned to be a writer was because I was fascinated by stories of La Llorona, supernatural stories and things like that and I love hearing chisme (gossip)…“
— Josefina Lopez American playwright 1969
On her earliest influences in “JOSEFINA LÓPEZ – IN HER OWN WORDS” http://latinopia.com/latino-theater/josefina-lopez/ in Latinopia (2010 Mar 6)
„I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.“
— Jessica Lynch Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1983
Congressional testimony (2007)
„OK, number one. There, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching… I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK? But, when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me. It's a problem for me, I can't control it.“
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
On the lightening of his skin.
Televised Interview with Oprah Winfrey (1993)
„I came from the bottom of the bottom. It's hard for a lot of people to comprehend my story – a lot of people just don't get me because they haven't experienced it. I came from the bottom and I have risen up and I have changed but I have never forgotten.“
— 50 Cent American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer 1975
From his interview with Louis Gannon for Live magazine, The Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper, 25 October 2009.
„For me, research is very important. But I do not begin with research. I begin with writing the story, which for me is the relationship between the characters. It is after I have written or pretty much have a sense of the story that I go and do research. I am conscious that I am writing about poor people for the most part. They don’t have much other than their space or dirt. I want to do my best to represent that well. I am also conscious that I am writing about other countries. I want to make sure I understand those cultures as best as possible and represent them well…“
— Uwem Akpan Nigerian Jesuit priest and writer 1971
On the secondary nature of historical research in his writing process in “UWEM AKPAN | INTERVIEW” https://granta.com/interview-uwem-akpan/ in Granta (2008 Nov 14)
„I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.“
— Донна Тартт, The Secret History
Fuente: The Secret History
„I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor—the story of my life, I fear.“
— Guy Gavriel Kay, libro Tigana
Fuente: Tigana (1990), Chapter 1 (p. 14)
„It’s good to be 18. For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.“
— Ezra Miller American actor 1992
Interview, Interview Magazine, 2010 http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/ezra-miller/#_
„I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.“
— Steve Martin American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer 1945
Fuente: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
„At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone. The moment I decided I'd rather be alone and not have anyone telling me their problems, everybody I'd never even seen before in my life started running after me to tell me things I'd just decided I didn't think it was a good idea to hear about. As soon as I became a loner in my own mind, that's when I got what you might call a "following."“
— Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987
As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.
Fuente: 1975, Ch. 1: Puberty
„I had gone thoroughly through some of the all-fiction magazines and I made up my mind that if people were paid for writing such rot as I read I could write stories just as rotten. Although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines.
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list. I had never met an editor, or an author or a publisher. l had no idea of how to submit a story or what I could expect in payment. Had I known anything about it at all I would never have thought of submitting half a novel; but that is what I did.
Thomas Newell Metcalf, who was then editor of The All-Story magazine, published by Munsey, wrote me that he liked the first half of a story I had sent him, and if the second half was as good he thought he might use it. Had he not given me this encouragement, I would never have finished the story, and my writing career would have been at an end, since l was not writing because of any urge to write, nor for any particular love of writing. l was writing because I had a wife and two babies, a combination which does not work well without money.“
— Edgar Rice Burroughs American writer 1875 - 1950
How I Wrote the Tarzan Books (1929)
