Story Quotes

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."

I write short stories. I write every day.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

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.

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

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

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

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.

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

I learned to love stories by listening to them.

You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

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

I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.

'Fringe' is essentially a love story, so the scenes where Walter had close connection with Peter, but also with Anna's character or Jasika's character, were very special to me.

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.

I just got my work visa to shoot American Horror Story, and my official status is "alien with extraordinary abilities."

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

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

There's nothing more important than a good story.

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.

I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.