Stories Quotes - Page 174

You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the result of the great tension and power condensed into each piece, all well and good.

I probably write the same story a hundred different ways. I suppose right now I am looking for the 101st different way to write that same story. And the 102nd, and 103rd and 111th and 133rd.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

The Maigret stories are all very different in terms of the content and the way that the stories are told. They're not what I would call formulaic.

And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.' 'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said.

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.

["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.

There are many more good stories about Jaye Davidson.

I had full access to the material, and had a great relationship with Sean Bailey, the president of Disney productions. He really guided me through the licensing process of the footage. I made presentations to the various departments at the studio, and they were moved by Owen's [Suskind] story.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're going to manage to get down on paper.

I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.

Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.

Bringing Mid-World to a new readership felt like a big responsibility, but I'm so glad that readers have enjoyed the story. That is a reward in itself.