Stories Quotes - Page 156

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.

Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don’t judge my characters.

I chase after inspiring stories.

The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.

We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story is good. I'm going into this venture thinking that the audience is really smart and really wants to hear all the nuances of what we're saying.

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.

In the end all collaborations are love stories.

I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.

TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.