Stories Quotes - Page 211

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.

All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.

When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien rather than describing it from an outside point of view.

Finish your stories! Read a lot!

Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.

Don’t see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it to give you the courage to do whatever you need to

If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message.

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.

If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.

A little story is supported by a lot of untold backstory. What they get is more than what they see.

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

Ive always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.

Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued each other's stories. Hers is a corker: future Masterchef. I chortled. There's not a single dud in Eat the Sky.