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Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.
John Grisham
Injustice
People
Books
System
Tell
About
Write
Mainly
Got
Still
Years
Chewed
Lots
Up
Want
Stories
Social
Social Injustice
Fun
Twenty
We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.
John Grisham
Me
You
People
Writing
Crime
Enjoy
Every
Months
About
Taking
Like
Know
Material
Endless
Six
Stories
Them
Century
Who
I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.
John Hillcoat
Love
You
People
Consequences
Those
See
Physically
Well
Sort
Does
Where
Stories
Psychologically
Actually
Violence
I have always thought of films as stories for the world.
John Hillcoat
World
Thought
Films
Always
Stories
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
John Irving
Writing
Looking
Write
Casualties
Uncover
Stories
Victims
Novel
Searching
Keep
Actually
There must be a dozen films now based on Philip K. Dick novels or stories, far more than any other published science fiction writer. He's sort of become the go-to guy for weird science fiction notions.
John Kessel
Science
Become
Films
Other
Philip
Must
Guy
More
Writer
He
Weird
Sort
Science Fiction
Than
Any
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Stories
Far
Notions
Novels
Now
Based
Published
Dozen
The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.
John Krasinski
You
Characters
Boring
One-Sided
Head
Feel
Over
Like
Always
Very
Hit
Being
Stories
Things
I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories.
John Krasinski
Good
Responsibility
Think
Tell
Good Stories
Stories
One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the truth about their own lives... I've come to realise that this interest in damaged, untellable stories comes from my parents.
John Lanchester
Truth
People
Parents
Own
Tell
One Of The Things
About
Come
Concern
Quite
Stories
Realise
Interest
Themselves
Noticed
Who
Novels
Lives
Things
Bring
Damaged
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
John Lasseter
Challenge
Type
Our
Kids
Entire
Adult
Animation
Make
Audience
Does
Movie
Stories
Really
Connect
Play
I studied African American studies, and I read these slave narratives and the escape narratives of people that were able to escape slavery and always found those stories intriguing and powerful and inspiring.
John Legend
People
Those
Intriguing
Able
Inspiring
Studied
Studies
Powerful
Read
Narratives
Always
Were
Escape
American
African
African-American
Stories
Found
Slave
Slavery
There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories.
John Legend
Life
Own
Other
Tells
My Own
Write
Writer
Like
Well
Always
Reference
Any
Autobiographical
Just
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Stories
Who
Novelist
Elements
Things
Albums
While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.
John Linder
Day
Battle
Nation
Lost
Memorial
John
About
General
More
Had
Towns
Been
Beginnings
American
Stories
Story
While
Held
Across
Who
Lives
Number
I tell the same stories all the time because I like them!
John McCain
Time
Tell
Like
Because
Same
Stories
Them
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.
John P. Kotter
Drama
Our
Slide
Say
More
Remembered
Abstract
Longer
Tales
Ideas
Brains
Than
Any
Crammed
Stories
Little
Far
Much
Programmed
I am always looking for stories that will shed light on how companies define themselves - for better or for worse. When shared with others, such stories can have an enormous impact on how well we move forward in the changing world around us.
John P. Kotter
World
Better
Light
Will
Looking
Enormous
Changing
Others
Worse
Define
Impact
Shared
Well
Shed
Around
Always
How
Am
Move
Move Forward
Stories
Themselves
Us
Forward
Companies
I have an idea about building almost like a studio for some of the best Tropfest filmmakers, so they can come together and support and be given space and resources they need to tell great stories year around, so it's not just about the festivals. You know, the sky's the limit with this thing, and I'm still making it up as I go along.
John Polson
Best
Great
You
Together
Space
Sky
Building
Year
Resources
Tell
Some
About
Given
Studio
Support
Almost
Idea
Great Stories
Along
Come
Like
Know
Around
Limit
Making
Still
Go
Up
Festivals
Just
Stories
Thing
Need
Filmmakers
Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are.
John Sandford
People
Somewhere
Else
Books
Though
Brooklyn
Stay
About
Somewhere Else
Like
Go
Often
Where
Want
Stories
Midwest
Who
Set
I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.
John Shirley
Great
Doctor
Sometimes
Care
Sense
Make
dont Care
Stories
While
Barely
Who
Company
Dr
Watch
We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.
John Sladek
Myself
Library
Phones
Phone
Pool
Too
Our
Kid
Our Town
Out
Had
Smash
Town
Hall
Hang
Any
Stories
Anyway
Either
Public
Public Library
Shy
For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
John Sununu
Positive
Government
Good
News
Good News
Monday
About
Week
Weekend
Dropped
Most
Talk
Government Officials
Friday
Dump
Anticipation
American
Officials
Gets
Bureaucrats
Where
Want
Stories
Afternoon
Bury
Washington
Filled
You can only really get to any truth by telling peoples' stories.
John Tiffany
Truth
You
People
Telling
Only
Get
Any
Stories
Really
I like short stories.
John Updike
Like
Short
Stories
Short Stories
I'm just going to be myself. And when you're bein' yourself, you don't have to back up lies or the stories you told. You don't got to sugarcoat nothin'.
John Wall
Myself
You
Yourself
Back
Back Up
Lies
Got
Up
Going
Just
Stories
Nothin
I've been an art collector since the Sixties, and I kept it very separate from my showbusiness career. I've had art shows since the early Nineties, a museum show that travelled to four countries. I've had three or four art books; it's just another way I have to tell stories.
John Waters
Art
Three
Books
Way
Nineties
Tell
Collector
Had
Countries
Since
Another
Another Way
Been
Very
Just
Sixties
Stories
Separate
Show
Shows
Travelled
Four
Early
Career
Kept
Museum
I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came out of the theatre where I worked in ensembles, and I really loved that.
John Wells
Theatre
People
Complicated
Out
Tell
About
Because
Came
Where
Stories
Loved
Happening
Interested
Worked
Really
Working
Groups
Actor
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