Stories Quotes

Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" finally made it to the drive-in

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.

Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color don't make money.

There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.

What's so ironic is that CNN's doing reports on fake news, and they have someone who writes one false news story after the next.

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

I just I love telling stories and as long as I can make my living doing that in all the different mediums that I have been lucky enough to, that's enough for me.

If I ever tell the same story twice, just laugh and roll with it because, when you get older, you start doing that kind of stuff.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.

Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.

I learned to love stories by listening to them.

Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

The right story needs the right telling.

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

I spy with my little eye a great story.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.

In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

I was always fascinated with the way that things pop on the Internet - the ways you build communities and create little stories and ideas that people play around with and send back to you.

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.

When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.

Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.