A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. ...
Martin Sixsmith: What you're talking about is what they call a human interest story; I don't do those. Jane: Why not? Martin Sixsmith: Because "human interest story" is a euphemism for stories about weak-minded, vulnerable, ignorant people, to fill i...
Sol Robeson: [finishes story of Archimedes' breakthrough] Now, what is the moral of the story? Maximillian Cohen: That a breakthrough will come. Sol Robeson: Wrong! The point of the story is the wife. You listen to your wife, she will give you perspe...
The problem is there are so many stories out there where I can pull that superhero out, put any other superhero in, and the story works the same. For me, that's broken. I have to write a story that no one else but Aquaman or Shazam can be in, and as ...
Want a thing long enough, and you don't.
As long as a language lives, the people will not perish.
They are not all cooks who carry long knives.
A pearl is worthless as long as it is still in its shell.
To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.
A loan long continued usually confers ownership.
Happiness that lasts too long spoils the heart.
Do not stay too long when the husband is not home.
To win a war quickly takes long preparation.
A pearl is worthless as long as it is in its shell.
All are not cooks who walk with long knives.
Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains.
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
Mothers-in-law are fine so long as they are deaf and blind.
It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
What if all religions were stories, and all stories were true.
Good stories take your imagination to anywhere
