Stories Quotes

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall'.

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

I always liked spy stories.

As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them. It's the story.

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.

For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to be about a message. It doesn't have to have some underlying theme of overwhelming importance.

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?

The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.

I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it.

If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.

Technique is of less interest than character and story.

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.

I feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.

We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all...

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

Everyone's story matters.

In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon.

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

The story of the Kelly system is a story of secrets - or if you prefer, a story of entropy.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

For Daredevil I think Sam Wortington could be very great and intense for this character. For the vilain it's depênd of the story.

We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.