Stories Quotes - Page 250

So yo then man what's your story?

I've always been a Batman fan, and I've always wanted to draw and write the sort of stories that I've always loved about Batman.

Taking Batman globally, not everything is going to have the same flavor as Gotham City; some places are going to be a lot more bright and airy. I would say that his stories are more broad, I guess I would put it that way.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

My goal was to show the history of the end of the Cold War through both sides - the U.S. side and the Soviet side. I really felt that especially the Soviet side of the story hadn't been well told because we didn't know.

I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never to repeat. But to those who remain enthralled, it is a fabulous story of oustanding success and splendid achievement, by comparison with which Britain's 20th century records seems at best unimpressive, and often distinctly lacklustre.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

I like having my own story remain my story.

Stories of friendship are very interesting to me. Artificial families are something I like to explore. Whether it's a bunch of guys or a bunch of ladies, there's something interesting about that.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.

We want to make sure the stories that show up in Path are both good stories and are a big part of people's lives.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.

The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.