Stories Quotes - Page 154

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.

I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film after his experience with "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," and I think that's great for us because then we have to do our own Salinger stories.

The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them. It's the story.

I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty obvious in "To Kill A Mockingbird," maybe a bit - little bit less obvious and more obscure in "Go Set A Watchman."

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.

I always liked spy stories.

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video.

I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction.

I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own weight.