Story Quotes

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

It's cool to tell a real story.

In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.

I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.

When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.

A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think.

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy of a short story. I try to do that and I'll try it again, but I'll never get it.

What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.

ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story . . .ʺ

American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

My favorite movies are love stories.

I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.