Adele Logan Alexander Quotes

I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families' histories, and how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history. Then it is no longer abstract. Then it becomes a story that really means something to us as individuals.

Adele Logan Alexander

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• I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Science
  • Like
  • Imagination

• When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Interesting
  • Enjoy
  • Story

• I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Story
  • Problems

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Story

• I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Want
  • Story

• Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Story
  • Economics
  • Narrative

• I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Live
  • True
  • Think

• As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Kind
  • Story
  • Forget

• With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • You
  • Story
  • Give

• There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Wish
  • Fire
  • Story

• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Books

• Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Good
  • Story
  • Director

• I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Story
  • Decisions
  • Dialogue

• I don't believe in happy families.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Families

• My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Story

• If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Different
  • Success
  • Story

• I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Story
  • First
  • Seven

• I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Story
  • Teach
  • Short

• The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Word
  • Possibility
  • Climate

• Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Eye

• Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Exist

• I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Party
  • Green
  • Oxygen

• I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families' histories, and how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history. Then it is no longer abstract. Then it becomes a story that really means something to us as individuals.

  

  Adele Logan Alexander
  • Story
  • Families
  • Histories