Stories Quotes - Page 90

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Stories happen to those who tell them.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of the way through it I realise I'm doing things wrong, so I start rewriting it. What you call the first draft becomes rather like a caterpillar; it is progressing fairly slowly, but there is movement up and down its whole length, the whole story is being changed. I call this draft zero, telling myself how the story is supposed to go.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

I had a hard time on TV, the last time on television, so I wasn't sure that I wanted to do that again. But, I really am a big fan of Jenji and I knew this is her next thing, so I read it. And once I read the script, I was really, really impressed that there was a woman who was the centerpiece of her own story, and that she was in the center of her own narrative.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in another period. I only work on one thing at once, because I'm afraid that I wouldn't finish what I'd started.

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.

Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.