Stories Quotes

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

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

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards.

On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.