Quotes About Stories

I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women.

I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right. But fiction isn't good at conveying information: It's good at telling stories about people in interesting situations.

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

I have always liked coming home and sharing what has happened that day with my loved ones. I like comparing notes. I know other people do, too. I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

I'm putting out music that I love, and they're basically just stories of my life and how I try and teach myself to think about things. They're kind of like notes to self, basically.

If you notice in my own films the blending of songs is distinct. They narrate stories and scenes.

I've had a lot of stories done on me because of my height, but that's OK. I don't feel like an exhibit. If that's what it takes to get noticed, that's fine.

Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

I don't very often read novels.

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

I've been given that gift of working with Jack Nicholson and James Coburn and certain people who just out of nowhere break into stories - talking about working with Alfred Hitchcock or Kubrick. That's my real reward of my career.