Quotes of: Sad-story Keyword

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

The Little Silkworm

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!

The Little Silkworm

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies

Last Witness

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

Message in a Bottle

But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.

Memoirs of Cleopatra

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

The Summer Without Men

I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them. That isn’t my story.

Sun Shine Down: A Memoir

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

Summer of the Gypsy Moths

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

Selected Operas and Plays

My life story is too long to tweet. Too long by two characters—and by characters I don’t mean Dora J. Arod and Dark Jar Tin Zoo.

Sleepwalking is restercise

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories

But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was given that other lifetime.

Short Cuts: Selected Stories

On the worst days, I feel fine. On the best days, I know I am not.

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories

Oh," He thought, "There is something with this girl." James thoughts regarding Kristen in "Top From The Bottom" a short story in Six Ways From Sunday.

Six Ways from Sunday

The story of the book filled the car with exciting adventures of the sort that are fun to read about, so we didn’t have to think about the exciting adventures of the sort that are no fun to live through.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

Don’t bury it, use it. Don’t keep it in, give it away. Don’t turn that love in, turn that love out.

Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories