Stories Quotes - Page 205

As soon as you start to question your own intent while you're still in the process of discovering your story, you're in trouble because you've pulled out of that unconscious space that is so necessary in the beginning of the drafting process.

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.

Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.

The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?

Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

I think there's a lot of really good programming on television. What I've noticed, through the years of being a professional writer, is the watering down process of story. You have to market to the masses and not offend anybody.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

There's nothing more important than a good story.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

We wait, all, for a story of us that shall reach to where we are. We listen for our own speaking; and we hear much that seems our speaking, yet makes us strange to ourselves.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after - a story that whatever comes shall perfectly continue or confirm: such is the ideal motive of religions.

If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerges as something to examine very carefully.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.