Stories Quotes

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

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

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.

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

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

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.

Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.

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

It’s a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish fist fighter * And quite a lot of thievery

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.

You want a love story too? There's none to be had.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

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.

There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

Every day of my life is going out in public and seeing people's lives and listening to stories - all that kind of stuff musically inspires me.

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.

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.

Who could ever tell a story complete?

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.

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

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.

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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.

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and it doesn't matter how hard I try.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

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.

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

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.

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.

I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

Certainly there will always be stories.

When we start to believe stories about how life works that come from anywhere else but within, we have set ourselves up for a crash course in getting a spiritual wake-up call!

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

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.

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.

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