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Country music's really good about telling a story, so I want songs that tell good stories where people can say, 'That happened to me!'
Lauren Alaina
Music
Good
Me
People
Country
Say
Tell
Telling
About
Good Stories
Songs
Where
Want
Stories
Happened
Story
Really
Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.
Lauren Groff
Love
Character
Made
Everything
Out
Fact
Almost
Almost Everything
Longer
Also
Tiny
Stories
Bigger
Which
Acquaintance
Imagined
We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.
Lauren Groff
Love
Time
Beginning
Think
Too
Horizontal
Having
Idea
Lot
Vertical
End
Texts
Being
Stories
Story
Little
Anne Carson and Angela Carter are folks I hold close to my heart because they have such unique ways of telling stories.
Lauren Mayberry
Heart
Ways
Telling
Carter
Folks
Angela
Anne
Because
Close
Hold
Stories
Unique
When I was in my early twenties, my mom started repeating things, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. It was like, 'Oh, God, this is not right.' When I was 25, my brother and I finally told our dad we had to take her to the doctor.
Lauren Miller
God
Mom
Doctor
Our
Finally
Telling
Brother
Take
Had
Like
Repeating
Questions
Same
Oh
Oh God
Stories
Asking
Twenties
Dad
Her
Right
Things
Early
Started
I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.
Lauren Myracle
Whatever
Tell
Telling
Seems
Like
Controversy
Stories
Wants
Story
Shy
I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.
Lauren Myracle
People
Drawn
Underdogs
Always
Get
Stories
Whose
You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
Lauren Oliver
Life
You
Believe
Our
Everything
Out
Points
Reach
Sorted
Always
Continue
Endings
Stories
Which
Us
Should
Suggest
I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!
Lauren Potter
Me
Yourself
People
Speak
Believe In Yourself
Will
Believe
Once
Way
Kids
Tell
Bad
Someone
Only
Through
Know
Go
Encourage
Up
Just
Being
Different
Want
Stories
Being Different
I read the personal stories everyone shares with me - those stories inspire me to keep going, and in doing so, I hope that I can inspire them in return.
Lauren Wasser
Hope
Me
Inspire
Everyone
Those
Shares
Return
Read
Doing
Personal
Going
Stories
Them
Keep
Keep Going
Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.
Lauren Weisberger
Good
Books
Mine
Way
Find
Anecdotes
Girlfriends
Experiences
Stories
Naturally
Many
Lives
Doing 'CSI: N.Y.' is not 'CSI.' Doing 'CSI: Miami' is not 'CSI: N.Y.,' it's 'CSI: Miami.' It has a very, very specific tone. It has a very specific look. It has a specific way in which they tell their stories that's different from 'CSI: N.Y.' and 'CSI.'
Laurence Fishburne
Way
Tell
Look
Doing
Miami
Very
Different
Stories
Which
Specific
Tone
In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.
Laurie Graham
Food
Sometimes
Seventies
Ate
Occasional
Read
Were
Yes
Junk
Politically
Politically Incorrect
Children
Stories
Street
Played
Incorrect
I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom would always encourage it. I don't know why I ever stopped!
Laurie Hernandez
Love
Funny
Mom
Writing
Kid
Would
Silly
Like
Know
Always
Encourage
Stopped
Stories
Little
To Love
Little Kid
Used
Why
Ever
I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep.
Laurie Holden
Love
Myself
Ghost
Ghost Stories
Because
Stories
Them
Then
Really
Watch
Sleep
There are a lot of reporters who I feel are a lot more courageous and fool-hardy than I am. Maybe at the top I'd put Dexter Filkins. He's an extraordinary man in terms of his nerve and ability to get into dangerous situations and tell the story cogently. He's bringing back real human stories. I admire that.
Lawrence Wright
Man
Dangerous
Extraordinary
Back
Top
Tell
Admire
Ability
Nerve
More
He
Put
Feel
Terms
Courageous
Dexter
Am
Real
His
Lot
Real Human
Than
Get
Reporters
Situations
Human
Maybe
Stories
Story
Who
Bringing
I'm someone very comfortable airing out the stories of my own life. Some people call it narcissism, but for me, the intention is that it will positively affect other people.
Leandra Medine
Life
Me
People
Will
Some People
Narcissism
Own
Other
Positively
Airing
Out
Some
Someone
My Own
Call
Comfortable
Affect
Very
Intention
Stories
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
Lee Child
Crime
Claustrophobic
Tend
Terms
Limited
Geography
Very
Stories
Psychological
Internal
British
Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.
Lee Gutkind
Our
Diligence
Possible
True
Demand
Readers
Nonfiction
Expect
Accurate
Stories
Means
To reconstruct stories and scenes, nonfiction writers must conduct vigorous and responsible research. In fact, narrative requires more research than traditional reportage, for writers cannot simply tell what they learn and know; rather, they must show it.
Lee Gutkind
Research
Tell
Responsible
Must
Reconstruct
Rather
More
Scenes
Fact
Writers
Simply
Know
Learn
Narrative
Nonfiction
Traditional
Conduct
Than
In Fact
Stories
Cannot
Requires
Show
Vigorous
Certain stories need the resources of a studio. If you're telling a story about a giant robot war in outer space, you're going to need the money and the resources most of the time to do it justice.
Leigh Whannell
War
Time
You
Justice
Money
Space
Robot
Resources
Giant
Telling
Outer
Outer Space
About
Studio
Most
Going
Stories
Story
Certain
Need
In chatting to directors over the years, including James Wan, they always tell you the war stories. No one ever says, 'Oh, I had a great time on that film.' It's always this went wrong, that went wrong.
Leigh Whannell
War
Time
Great
You
Says
Tell
Directors
Chatting
Had
No-One
Wrong
Over
Great Time
Always
Years
Oh
James
Stories
Including
Film
Ever
I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!
Leila Aboulela
Great
Me
Library
Creative
Writing
Great Deal
Thought
Took
Everyone
Classes
He
Deal
Editor
His
Encouraged
Just
Stories
Happened
Central
Todd
Who
Creative Writing
Started
The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will become instinctual rather than something to be pushed for.
Lela Loren
Hope
People
Writing
Will
Become
About
Something
Rather
Color
Pushed
Instinctual
Scope
Than
Endless
Stories
Rainbow
I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.
Lennie James
Sometimes
Drama
Ghost
Ghost Stories
Television
Dreading
Never
Hour
Least
American
Six
Maybe
Eight
Stories
Length
Episodes
Working
American Television
Series
Petrified
Twenty-Two
Britain
When I write, I talk about stories and things that are happening in my life. I come from the church. There was a time in my life when I actually had that transformation and relationship with God.
Leon Bridges
Life
God
Time
Relationship
Church
My Life
Transformation
About
Write
Had
Come
Talk
Stories
Happening
Actually
Things
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