Stories Quotes

I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story.

I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like "yeah he's a cute little kid" but I started, little by little, telling stories about people I'd met and expanded my voices.

By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.

I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me.

Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories.

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.

I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

I consider myself fortunate that I am in the position to decide which is the most effective way to tell our stories.

Some stories we know well and some we learn as we go. Being able to shape and share these stories into new perspectives and new ideas is incredibly gratifying.

Light, to me, stands for Living In Gods Heavenly Thoughts. That's a good place to live. That is what influenced me to tell stories in light and that happened to be movies and plays.

Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas. In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.

Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

Being a Dodgers fan led to my first Air Force court-martial, but that's another story.

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.

Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.

I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable.

I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

almost all novels are love stories.

"All stories should be completely planned out from beginning to end."

The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed.

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

The story sometimes writes you into a corner.

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'

I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that "reader" is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.