Stories Quotes

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.

There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

Part of the story of Ghosts of Ascalon is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.

Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story.

We don't run out of stories, because of the characters. But also every year, the NFL, like a crazy rich uncle we never see, just drops some stories off at our door.

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.

My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

While we do have 50 years of terrific Avengers stories, many of which our writing staff has written, along the way, this has to live in its own world.

I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines].

'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love it. I think that's what really attracts me to making films.

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.