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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If… — Ray Bradbury
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I… — Ray Bradbury
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. — Ray Bradbury
Most of my short stories are fantasy. — Ray Bradbury
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars. — Ray Bradbury
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to… — Ray Bradbury
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling. — Jeff Bridges
I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat. — Albert Brooks
And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know… — Geraldine Brooks
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose.… — Geraldine Brooks
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he… — Mel Brooks
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go… — Terry Brooks
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell… — Bill Bryson
I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and… — Bill Bryson
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story… — Bill Bryson
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. — James Buchan
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. — Jimmy Buffett
Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad… — Mitch Albom
A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. — Mitch Albom
This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. — Mitch Albom
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in… — Mitch Albom
Every movie is a love story. — Sandra Bullock
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this… — Madeleine Albright
I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. — Steve Buscemi
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. — Steve Buscemi

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