Quotes of: Story-books Keyword

The end has to come from within.

Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?

When You Were Mine

Freedom is saying I want to do this Not that

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man

Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.

A to Z Stories of Life and Death

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

Alan Ball

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Chuck Palahniuk

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

Nic Pizzolatto

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

Terry Southern

A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading toward one inevitable conclusion

Return to Exile

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful

Lee Bice-Matheson

social media isn’t about “marketing” your church or message; it’s about “connecting” with people who want to make your story part of their story.

Phil Cooke

The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

Phil Gramm

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

Paul Ricoeur

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Ray Bradbury

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

Roger Ebert

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

Sarah Monette

My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.

Sarah Waters

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Sara Zarr

Children and teenagers don't easily relate to stories about kings and dukes, and to tell only stories about kings and dukes is to ignore the regular people.

Tim Crouch

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

Tanith Lee