Stories Quotes

A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

Politics always change. Stories never do.

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.

I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it.

The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow along and see where it goes. That's the fun.

I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.

My main goal is to tell a story.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing

Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

There's no good story without romance.

I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to make movies that appeal to mass culture.

I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.

If improv gets reckless, you can feel it. A lot of shows try to do that, I find. When improv is done sloppily. It betrays the story. It can slow down the energy of the story you're telling.

No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an easy filter to put any story through.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them.

The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.

Ive got a ton of stories about Chuck Knox, ... Over the course of my playing career, there was nobody that I learned to respect and appreciate more than I did Chuck Knox.

If someone said, "Would you like to do the period drama?," I'd say, "Hell, yeah! I'd love to do that!" To dig into history and do a story in some period would be great.

The bigger story here is that the fabric of the Net has changed; it’s a place for people to connect up around shared interests and then collaborate towards some sort of action.

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

A story is built on characters and reasons.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.