Stories Quotes
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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They [my stories] evolve. If they're tightly constructed, it's because they're revised constantly as I move forward each day. That's where the structure inheres. It's all organic.
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It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.
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The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
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the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.
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Over the years, the Beatles themselves have incorporated so much fantasy into their own stories that its hard to know what really happened. Theres still so much to know.
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There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.
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If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth
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I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.
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I am not sure how much Dudley will feature just because of the grand scale of the film and the fact that there are so many stories and characters to tie up. I haven't seen the film yet but I think it will be a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but it was nice just to round it off and give it some closure.
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
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As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that over the years she has changed her mind about the value of writing about love, as her rich edited collection of highly original and diverse ‘African Love Stories’ demonstrates. She has traveled her path and had the courage to grow and change while retaining her deep commitment to Pan – Africanism. Love flourishes, after all is said and done.
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My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.
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I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.
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Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper.
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
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I remember when I was doing Mermaids 1990, I was 16 and they gave me a B12 shot once. My parents weren't there, and when they did come, they freaked out. They were terrified, because of the Judy Garland stories. I know it's just vitamin B, but it did give you a boost.
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When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me.
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Today’s hard news stories were yesterday’s dystopian SF. Rereading
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Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
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Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.
