A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. Votes: 4
Edgar Allan PoeStorytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. Votes: 4
Karen ArmstrongAll human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . . Votes: 4
Harvey CoxUnless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble. Votes: 2
Alan RickmanWhat stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
William Makepeace ThackerayI don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.
Geoffrey S. FletcherMy level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
Benjamin NetanyahuAbove all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.
George MacDonaldIt's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about
David Henry HwangIn my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
Haruki MurakamiI don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
Erin MorgensternWe speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
Jacqueline CareyWhen you have fans telling you their stories it makes you feel like you're not alone.
Tristan PrettymanCrime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
William LandayI would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
Agatha ChristieIt's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.
Grantland Rice....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
Kathryn StockettAt the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.
Norman MacleanI'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.
Regina SpektorThere are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.
Ryan PhillippeI'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.
William MonahanThe more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
Andrew SolomonNo one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
David Foster WallaceI believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!
Jane GoodallOur life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
Rasheed OgunlaruWe're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
Alan RickmanMuch contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
Alice FultonI hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.
David BurnettI suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.
Erin MorgensternThe job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.
James A. MichenerGod invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.
Jimmy FallonIf every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
John BergerThe stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential.
Jonah SachsSome stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
Kristin HannahAs a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.
Lili TaylorI'll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.
Michelle HodkinDon't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
Ray BradburyThat is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.
Roger Ross Williams...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.
Stephen KingThere's no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
Tobias WolffMost films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.
Uma ThurmanI really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction.
Volker BertelmannFor God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
William ShakespeareOur desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
Christina BaldwinThe constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.
Claude LelouchSometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
Etgar KeretAll I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
Maeve BinchyWrite a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
Ray Bradbury... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.
Shannon HaleStories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.
Tara BrachA novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
Walker PercyIn the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.
Alberto ManguelThere are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
Andre BretonI hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
Bill WattersonMy grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
Chris BohjalianOur memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
Daniel KahnemanThe best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
Etgar KeretViolence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.
Jane LevyIt's always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.
Jim SturgessSurrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.
Jimmy BuffettThe job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves
John GreenI think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.
John GreenI seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
Junot DiazI'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.
Katharine Susannah PrichardIn the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.
Mat McNerneyYou're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.
Reese WitherspoonI have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.
Ryan TedderStories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
Steven MillhauserI make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.
Damon LindelofWhen I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
Dario FoThe point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of âless is more.
Darynda JonesWe are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works
Gabrielle ZevinI wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.
John DarnielleBecause we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.
Madeleine L'EngleWe turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.
Madeleine L'EngleI'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
Marguerite MoreauBe mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.
Monica LewinskyWhat I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.
Nicholas SparksAll stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.
Patrick RothfussI am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
Ann PatchettMr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film
Annette FunicelloYou will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.
Edgar Allan PoeI actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
Elizabeth MoonThis human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.
Fisher StevensOld stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
George R. R. MartinI am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
Ion TiriacThe idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.
Jill AbramsonHistory belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
Julianne MalveauxI made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
Nigel KnealeI think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.
Paul KingsnorthTo really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.
Sam KeenOnly cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.
Scott McClanahanI like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.
Shemar MooreIf people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.
Sherwood AndersonI love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my days off.
T. J. ThyneLife will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.
Oren LyonsWe are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
Arthur KleinmanWe do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success; we do it to create more success stories.
Bill de BlasioThese are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
Clifford D. SimakIf you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
David GemmellHow we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.
Guy Gavriel KayI am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.
Joe MurrayI listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.
John D. VoelkerHindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.
Marianne MooreThe real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
Neil GaimanThat's why love stories don't have endings! They don't have endings because love doesn't end.
Richard BachShe smiled. "Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.
Ruth OzekiAll cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...
Shirley JacksonIn Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.
Sijie DaiI always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video.
Volker BertelmannI love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.
Bob SagetWhen we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.
Brené BrownOne cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
Carolyn HeilbrunStories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.â
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.
David Alan BascheFCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.
David TalbotGood writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
Donald MillerThe only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
Elie Wiesel[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
Elizabeth BowenI got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.
Hedda HopperWe sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.
Libba BrayThe vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.
Marilyn JohnsonPerhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.
Primo LeviIn journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."
Robert ReichI don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.
Steven MoffatAll the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
V. S. NaipaulWomen know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
Alice HoffmanThe idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
Chris MartinI wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
Ellie GouldingI loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.
Jacqueline Woodson