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I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.
Anna Camp
Good
Parents
Laugh
Telling
Hoping
Since
Also
Make
Making
Been
Grade
Bread
Stories
Really
Acting
Thing
Pudding
Second
Here
I was just so intrigued with good stories from the time I was a little girl. When my parents would take us out to dinner, I would bring a book along. And they were perfectly happy with that.
Anna Gunn
Time
Good
Happy
Book
Dinner
Girl
Parents
Intrigued
Out
Would
Good Stories
Take
Perfectly
Along
Were
Just
Stories
Little
Little Girl
Us
Bring
I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.
Anna Quindlen
News
Sunday
Through
Write
New
Like
Know
Practically
Gospel
Testament
Brain
New Testament
Goes
Listen
Stories
Inform
Much
I love telling 'first' stories - first loves, first college experience, first kiss, all of those kinds of things.
Anna Todd
Love
Experience
College
Kiss
First
Those
Telling
Kinds
College Experience
First Kiss
Stories
Loves
Things
I remember seeing stories on Wattpad with five million reads and thinking, 'That must be incredible.'
Anna Todd
Remember
Thinking
Incredible
Must
Seeing
Reads
Five
Stories
Million
There's nothing like meeting a girl at a signing and her telling me that she loves reading now, and she's even writing her own stories.
Anna Todd
Me
Writing
Girl
Reading
Own
Nothing
Meeting
Telling
Signing
Like
She
Stories
Loves
Even
Now
Her
Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.
Annalee Newitz
War
World
Brooks
Written
Make
Partly
Greatest
Max
Stories
Reasons
Novel
Ever
Zombie
Basically
World War
I feel that since I was a little, little person, I knew that one of my life goals was to tell stories and bring joy to people.
Annaleigh Ashford
Life
People
Joy
Goals
My Life
Tell
Knew
Feel
Since
Person
Stories
Little
Bring
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
Anne Enright
Monsters
Tell
Absolute
Come
Narrative
Quite
Where
Stories
Interested
Roots
Why
I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.
Anne Reid
Cabaret
Write
Over
Stories
Place
Little
Notebooks
I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
Anne Rice
Me
Inspire
Own
Though
Characters
My Own
Mythology
May
Stories
Created
Realm
Working
Conscious
We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
Anne Sullivan
Sad
You
Nothing
Nice
About
Feel
Particular
Like
Cry
Make
Stories
Us
My stories are never quite good enough.
Anne Tyler
Good
Enough
Never
Quite
Stories
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.
Annie Dillard
You
Book
Long
Pour
Big
Sense
Project
Possess
More
Write
Learn
Makes
Narrative
Nonfiction
Fit
Ambitious
Than
Essays
Stories
Many
Novel
I know stories of Pac, but I was really, really young when he passed. The fact that he was such a thespian, and so passionate about his craft, was shocking to me in a way.
Annie Ilonzeh
Me
Young
Way
About
Fact
He
Know
Passed
Passionate
His
Shocking
Craft
Stories
Really
Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.
Anthony Browne
Me
Son
Own
Back
Say
Bit
My Own
Come
Ideas
Know
Look
Got
Yes
Oh
Where
Stories
Afterwards
Little
Little Bit
Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.
Anthony Doerr
Book
Long
Publish
Too
Magazines
Write
Pieces
Print
Without
Always
Short
Bravest
Fiction
Stories
Short Stories
Meaning
Really
Publishers
Short stories are not maybe the biggest deal in our culture anymore.
Anthony Doerr
Culture
Our
Deal
Maybe
Short
Anymore
Stories
Short Stories
Biggest
Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of 'Aha!' moments, and some which seem like 'Aha!' moments but turn out not to be.
Anthony Goldbloom
Reality
Startup
Out
Telling
Some
Seem
Like
Always
Smoother
Than
Stories
Which
Turn
Moments
Series
There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.
Anthony Horowitz
You
Strange
Stay
About
Something
Schoolboy
Read
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
Very
Forever
Stories
Holmes
English
Wars break things; they break stories.
Anthony Marra
Stories
Break
Wars
Things
I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.
Anthony Marra
Time
Good
Job
Nights
Sleeping
Spent
Write
Retail
Writer
Had
Written
Knew
Perform
Days
Know
How
Bedroom
Surgery
Brain
Brain Surgery
Than
Childhood
Short
Anymore
Fiction
Wanted
Stories
Short Stories
While
Working
Here
Making a movie to entertain people, that's just as important as telling people about our stories.
Antoine Fuqua
People
Important
Our
Telling
Entertain
Entertain People
About
Making
Just
Movie
Stories
It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.
Antonia Thomas
Great
You
Yourself
People
Other
Minds
Tell
Like
Get
Stories
Who
Express
Express Yourself
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
Antonio Tabucchi
War
Me
History
People
World
Remember
First
Carnage
Worst
Vividly
About
Tend
First World
First World War
Forget
Human
Stories
Which
Grandfather
Human History
World War
No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.
Anu Garg
Love
You
Words
Matter
Looking
Fall
Live
Once
Easy
Been
Where
Stories
Them
Use
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