Stories Quotes

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.

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?

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters.

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.