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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around. Natalia Tena

Music Words Other Way Insane Around Go Did Same Just Stories Might Need

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too. Natalie Babbitt

Book Writing Husband First Too Had He Wrote Go Going Being Want Anymore Stories Story Then Illustrator Start

I'm interested in stories being told by marginalized voices and, specifically, people of color. Natasha Rothwell

People Color Voices Being Stories Interested Specifically Marginalized

As a writer, I use improv to write. Exploring characters and stories through improv and sitting at the computer and thinking about what this character would say or do helps me creatively. Natasha Rothwell

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I'm drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories in ways that subvert expectations. That's always been fun for me to play and always been fun for me to write. Natasha Rothwell

A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history. Natasha Trethewey

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Human experience is infinite. Lives are infinite. Stories are infinite. Just because one story has gravity in it doesn't mean you can't write a different one with gravity in it. Nathan Englander

You Experience Write Because Infinite Human Just Different Just Because Stories Story Mean Human Experience Lives Gravity

So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. Nathan Englander

Writing Translation Playwriting Easier League Stories Them Comparison

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories. Nathan Englander

Time You Spend Telling Writer Linear So Much Time Stories Straight Much

Love stories should be relatable. Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Love Love Stories Stories Should

The name of the album is 'Non-Fiction'. And, I'm calling it that because the name of every song on this album is derived from a true story. Now, some of the stories are mine. Some of the stories belong to some of my fans. Ne-Yo

Song Fans Every Mine Some True Name Calling Non-Fiction Because True Story Stories Story Derived Now Belong Album

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. Neil Gaiman

Myself Freedom Jokes Comedy Old Made Glorious Sense Tell Folk Allowing Up Just African Stories Interrupt

As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately. Neil Jackson

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them. Neil Jackson

Love Writing Reading Part Devising Love Stories Being Stories Them Watching

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing. Neil MacGregor

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'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories. Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them. Nell Freudenberger

Garry Shandling's stand-up specials were masterpieces of tightly crafted stories that delivered both hard jokes and hard truths. He was neurotic and self-deprecating, and his observations on life cut deep. Nell Scovell

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I admire Eudora Welty. 'Delta Wedding' is a book I've given as a present to numerous women. Eudora Welty rocks. She writes such jewel-like, fine, refined short stories. Nell Zink

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If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself. Nic Pizzolatto

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