Stories Quotes - Page 184

When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.

I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

All stories are true.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell.

Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.

Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs. “Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.

The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.

Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores.

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.