Stories Quotes

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.

I just got my work visa to shoot American Horror Story, and my official status is "alien with extraordinary abilities."

Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both veil what is to be uncovered, neither is capable of the coverup.

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.

I want to stay close to the groove of people's individual human stories. I can't see that there's anything more interesting than that. That's just me. That's what I do.

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actually highly formulaic.

My job is to tell good stories, convey meanings, invoke emotion as well as I can. I'd rather be doing that than anything else.

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Certainly there will always be stories.

Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be "realistic" in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story.

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

I'd just love to see the next Star Wars films when they come out because I'm very into the whole universe and the stories. So they're always rewarding.

In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one