Quotes of: Story Keyword

In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternatively to attack those pieties for no other reason than the visibility such an attack will generate, when its literary tropes are all too familiar, its ...

Tim Parks

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the on...

Neil Gaiman

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he ...

The Kite Runner

There used to be a rubbish heap under the great tree in Dhoby Ghaut with a sarabat stall parked next to it. It was a low, sprawling rubbish heap made up of the usual things—refuse from dustbins, paper, old tins and slippers and leaves from the tree...

The Wayang at Eight Milestone: Stories & Essays

That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action. There weren't any more hitches now. The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the roller turned with almost piston-like continuity...

Cornell Woolrich

If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It will never be as good as you want it to be, so forget about perfection. Just be satisfied that you've done the best work you can do at...

James Hampton

Radio Raheem: Let me tell you the story of Right Hand, Left Hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cane iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. T...

Do the Right Thing

Pappagallo: What is it with you, huh? What are you looking for? C'mon, Max, everybody's looking for something. You're happy out there, are you? Eh? Wandering? One day blurring into another? You're a scavenger, Max. You're a maggot. Did you know that?...

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

Mr. Koreander: Your books are safe. While you're reading them, you get to become Tarzan or Robinson Crusoe. Bastian: But that's what I like about 'em. Mr. Koreander: Ahh, but afterwards you get to be a little boy again. Bastian: Wh-what do you mean? ...

The NeverEnding Story

Narrator: In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. Naturally, the stench was foulest in Paris, for Paris was the largest city in Europe. And nowhere in Paris was that stench ...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

[Chuckles is telling Woody about Lotso] Chuckles: Yeah, I knew Lotso. He was a good toy. A friend. Me and him, we had the same kid: Daisy. I was there when Lotso got unwrapped. Daisy loved us all. But Lotso... Lotso was special. They did everything t...

Toy Story 3

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

Crown Duel

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.

The Color Master: Stories

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

Crying With Laughter: My Life Story

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.

The Complete Uncollected Stories

It was ridiculous, at times, how many tears one body could produce.

The Color Master: Stories

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

The Complete Short Stories

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

He did not like illness, he distrusted it, as he distrusted the road without signposts. ("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")

The Collected Stories

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

The Complete Short Stories