Quotes of: Long-story Keyword

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” [ ; November 16, 1857]

Letters to Various Persons

A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.

The Storyteller

We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.

Bill Irwin

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

Howard Nemerov

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

J. J. Abrams

Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you're enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as l...

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders...

The Best American Short Stories 2003

There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.

Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy

But stories are worlds. New worlds for us to visit. In stories, we live forever.

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller

...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

Harold Brodkey

Al McWiggin: So, uh, how long is this gonna take? Geri the Cleaner: Ya can't rush art.

Toy Story 2

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.

Alice Lowe

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

Tatiana Maslany

God is not many. God is one. But many and divers are yet men's shadows. So long as men cast shadows on the earth, so long as each man's god no greater than hi shadow. The shadow-less only are all in the light. The shadow-less only know one god. For g...

The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark

We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works. He has read enough to know that there are no collections w...

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as...

Rachel Cusk

Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story. ("Introduction")

Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories

As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.

Beverly Cleary