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I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.
Tony DiTerlizzi
As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid.
Robert H. Grubbs
Tags: Money Out Always
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What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.


Mark Zuckerberg
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.
Steve Case
Tags: Me Think More
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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.


Steve Buscemi
Tags: People Like About
Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.
Crystal Bowersox
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I think people always want candy, whether you're a kid or an adult.


Dylan Lauren
Tags: You People Think
We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.
Brit Marling
Tags: Truth Just Always
When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.
David Beckham
Tags: Dad Me Little
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Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.


Ruth Ozeki
Tags: Time Alone You
I write because it feels good, and I don't have a deadline, and I don't have people telling me what they want me to write. Maybe if I did, I wouldn't be very good at it.
Nikki Reed
Tags: Good People Me
I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories.
Rose Tremain
Tags: Always Very Which
I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
Raina Telgemeier
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
Sergio Aragones
Tags: Humor Very Even
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What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.


Marc Forster
I don't know... it's just too much fun to wonder about what life would be without gravity. I just started thinking about outer space more as an adult than I probably ever did as a kid. That was also inspiring, the concept of being stuck to the earth.
Dave Pirner
Tags: Space About Just
I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tags: People Me Who
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Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.


Clara Bow
Tags: Trust Me Life
My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
Patrick J. Adams
Tags: Dad Amazing Me
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I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.


Tori Amos