Stories Quotes
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I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if you don’t make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.
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There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.
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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
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I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories.
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I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.
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It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
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Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
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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."
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Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.
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There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.
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Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories, and it's probably still true, from newspapers. Primarily from The New York Times. No one ever really thinks of The New York Times as a tabloid newspaper and it isn't a tabloid newspaper. But there is a tabloid newspaper within The New York Times very, very often.
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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
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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.
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You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.
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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.
