Stories Quotes - Page 89

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.

We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

Good stories are constructed, not found.

I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while you want a proper and satisfying ending, it doesn't have to end The Story, in capital letters.

I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.

Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant story itself brings about their elimination! Then the illusion might go on for a very long time, might have to result in real catastrophe, before anyone realizes anything is wrong.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story.

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.

I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.