Quotes of: Long-story Keyword

A moment is a long story short.

Khalid Masood

Life is too short for a long story.

Mary Wortley Montagu

It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can.

The Goldfinch

You have a long history," he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. "Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and ti...

The Phoenix Endangered

What is most important is the deeply felt conviction that freedom is like oxygen, and I hope The Long Walk is a reminder that when lost, freedom is difficult to regain.

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write.

Richard Flanagan

My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes...

The Two Towers

I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

Chronicles of Urban Nomads

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

Eli Wallach

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

Jamie Dornan

[last lines] Woody: So long... partner.

Toy Story 3

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

Hayao Miyazaki

I'd love to do action-y types of films; you know, as long as they're good stories.

Liam Hemsworth

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

Nell Freudenberger

I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story.

Rutina Wesley

Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.

Alarms and Discursions

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

The Story Girl

No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time. Eating and crying. Crying and eating.

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Jane Campion