Stories Quotes
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I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.
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I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.
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Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.
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I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.
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But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology.
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If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.
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I try not to look at stories on the Internet because I don't want to psych myself out. I kinda half to stay off the Internet. I'm not thick-skinned enough. I get too sensitive. I don't want it to effect what I'm doing.
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Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
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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.
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I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.
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I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.
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The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.
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In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
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We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
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It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.
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The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.
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I personally have a hard time with a lot of the creation stories that revolve around the creator being a white man. It seems very limiting to me. So God to me is... so limitless and magical and loving and beautiful.
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I am not chocolate and definitely not a boy. I am a man, and I have no clue how this image has stuck to me despite all these years. I think, maybe, in spite of trying to shell off my chocolate boy image, love stories excite me, and somehow I land up in such roles.
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What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems.
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Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
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I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).
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I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
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If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
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In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?
