Quotes of: True-story Keyword

Embrace all emotions: sadness, happiness, sorrow, hate, love, prejudice, fear; they are weapons against our greatest enemy: indifference.

Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel: Poems and Stories

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

After the first couple weeks, when all your sex toys had met all my sex toys, ...

What Do Lesbians Do in Bed?: 21 Sapphic Stories

Because any guilt the size of a speck of dust, or shame, can crush even the best of men, in mountains of weight

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

I thought this would be the end of your antics. There are three hundred guests sitting in the church and suddenly you believe you can fly?

The Wedding and Other Short Romantic Stories

I’m the new age miner, going to work at the company’s gold mines, where they charge me for the pick axe

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

In some stories, it's easy. The moral of "The Three Bears," for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house." The moral of "Snow White" is "Never eat apples." The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

The Wide Window

If my shadow were made of ink, I’d kill it and use it to write a dark novel. Possibly a story about fractional banking.


Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings

Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.

Zone One

Really the only time men and women get along is when women want sex.

The Zombie Sheriff Takes Tucson: A Love Story

I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort of happen earlier for me, which happens to a lot of people. My 21st birthday was just a little boring. Not a great story.

Sarah Wright

The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes n...

Chris Crutcher

Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative - essentially equating the promise of America with his extraordinary life story - swep...

Cynthia P. Schneider

'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else o...

David Gerrold

Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.

Damon Lindelof

Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends up on the cutting room floor, because it just do...

Hart Bochner

I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an appreciation for the farm's best lessons.

John Bytheway

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

Jason Katims