Stories Quotes
-
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
-
Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.
-
I have to have an impact. That's what drives me to practice to make sure my words are clear and my stories are compelling. Right. Because it matters.
-
I remember a point in writing the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."
-
Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.
-
My job is more about helping people tell their stories in ever more interesting ways.
-
I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.
-
I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.
-
I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.
-
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
-
People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
-
The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.
-
Overnight success stories take a long time.
-
There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.
-
Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.
-
I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
-
One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
-
It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
-
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
-
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
-
I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.
-
I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the experiences themselves - might become material for art. This kind of transformation shows up a lot in 10:04 because the book tracks the transposition of fact into fiction in the New Yorker stor.
-
I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.
-
You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
