Stories Quotes - Page 43

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

The jokes now, it's just more stories and personal experiences. And just talking about things that really happened. It's just becoming more comfortable as a performer, sharing my opinions on things, or things that've happened to me. That's where it's really going.

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.