Story Quotes

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

The best defense is a good story.

I have some good stories yet to tell.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.

I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

[Clowns] gotten a really bad rap in the last few years. People have really given into their own fears and have celebrated their fears in that way. American Horror Story didn't help.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.

This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

Love stories always seem to be a spark.