Quotes About Stories

I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.

I think there is an insatiable appetite for romance and for love stories, which is partly why these books and movies do so well.

I would like to see more female stories out there, particularly older female stories.

When I started listening to rap music, I loved the fact that there were stories being told in 16 bars.

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

You want to have pressure and tell stories that you find a real reason to tell, aside from any business reason. If business is your only reason, that always goes badly.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

If I can help create empathy and balance in society, I'm going to do whatever I can to tell stories that subconsciously create that.

Country music has the great stories.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.

I can't remember how old I was, maybe 13, 14, and to see these fellows and hear their stories and to see life come to such a drab ending - my God, a poorhouse in those days was something. You would have to be inert not to respond to it.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

The kind of stories I like often comes from debutant directors.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

I sort of was inspired by 'Friday Night Lights,' where it was a very different show, but similar in that they were both large ensemble dramas where you had many stories going on at once. I wanted to do a show that shared that element, and that's really why I wanted to develop 'Parenthood' as a series.

I love adventure stories.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.

We don't do this kind of work for awards or to be recognised. We do this to share stories with the world.

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

It was very cold in jail. But inmates were good. They shared their stories with me.