“Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.” FeelsWritingMomentsStoriesRealityCoursesMemoriesBoysDegreesUnderstoodAdamConvincing Author:Amelie Nothomb
“To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.” StoriesWhiteBoysUniversalCatchersShuffle Author:Ryan Phillippe
“Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!” HumansFactsStoriesTodayAmericaCultureStrongSportsSidesSimpleBoysRichGrowingPerspectiveHeroPeriodsProfoundPaintInternationalDetailsObsessedBiographiesParallelsAnecdotesCelebrity Culture Author:Nigel Hamilton
“It’s no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It’s a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesn’t know their purpose, they get lost.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingStoriesPurposeLostBoysKeep TryingLost Boys Author:Emmanuel Jal
“You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.” MadeStoriesEnergyCompanyBoysSeaFieldsFoolSingingUnionsWorkersDuesOilAlternativesListen To MeOil Field Author:Woody Guthrie
“I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.” WayStoriesAgeYoungImaginationDealsBoysSawsOur LivesSeeingGrewGrew UpTraditionImportanceStorytellingEncountersVillageMy ImaginationYoung AgeTelling StoriesSierraOral TraditionSierra LeoneSmall Villages Author:Ishmael Beah
“Reading Gypsy Boy, I felt invited into a secret society. I've always found Gypsies mysterious and even slightly dangerous, and Mikey Walsh does an excellent job describing the cloistered lifestyle and fascinating traditions of the Romani people. Moreover, Mikey's personal story of being a misfit among misfits is both compelling and universal. I cheered for him every step of the way.” PeopleWayDoeStoriesJobsReadingFoundFeltSecretStepsBoysDangerousTraditionUniversalLifestyleMysteriousExcellentFascinatingCompellingInvitedDescribingEvery StepGypsyMisfitsSecret SocietyPersonal StoriesMikey Author:Julia Scheeres
“I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingYearsBookStoriesSeemsGirlPleasureLevelsTalkingBoysWonderfulReaderSixSellsCopiesSix Year Olds Author:Emily Rodda
“The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.” WritingPersonsStoriesYoungBoysSlaveNovelistsMississippi Author:Seth Godin
“Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight in people sick with elephantiasis. Our "European intellectuality" finds itself in an identical condition today which, through Jewish pens, worships the Kokoschka, Chagalls and Pechsteins as the leaders of the Art of the future. Features of degeneracy are already apparent, as, for instance, with Schwalbach, who dares representing Jesus as flat footed and bow legged.” PeopleArtStoriesTodayJesusLeaderBoysSpecialConditionsWorshipSickDelightDareInstanceFeaturesFlatsPensShort StoryBowsDispositionIdenticalUnnaturalRepresenting Author:Alfred Rosenberg
“Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.” ThinkingKnowsWritingYearsSaidI CanStoriesGuyCan DoBoysOfficeHandleHeyDo You KnowThey SaidI Can Do ItSeventeenSeventeen Years Old Author:Stan Lee
“I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever.” IfsWaySaidBookEndsDoneStoriesShowsWould BeBoysMiddleScriptsCleverOne WaySupposed To BeInvolvingBeginning Middle And EndJigsaw Author:Quentin Tarantino