Stories Quotes - Page 218

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

The right story needs the right telling.

I spy with my little eye a great story.

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories, which explain how the world began or where the sun goes when it sets, we call myths. Mythology is a natural product of the symbolizing mind; poets, when not making up myths of their own, are still commanding ancient ones.

Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.

The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.

I learned to love stories by listening to them.

Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not particularly real in life, but they're real on the screen. It's the communal aspect of movie-watching.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

If I ever tell the same story twice, just laugh and roll with it because, when you get older, you start doing that kind of stuff.

My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative.

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.