Stories Quotes

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.

In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.

I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me.

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

But the smoking is very frustrating. Who knows where it will go; where the story will go; where the character will go? There's still lots of options.

High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!

The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.

I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.

Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can.

I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.

Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will remember what you say.