Stories Quotes - Page 162

Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.

I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be like a friend telling me a story -- so we go off on thoughts; that's the way it is.

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.

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.

Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don't have any restrictions.

James Leininger's story is the most compelling evidence so far for reincarnation.

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

I believe with an extreme story the closer you look the more horrifying it gets.

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.

SEEING BELIEVING what’s in front of you is not necessarily the entire story

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.