Quotes About Stories

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

I love reading beautiful stories. I love poems and yes, I fantasize about someone writing beautiful lines for me.

I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and what caused the world to be, and it seems to me that these stories of creation myth, adopted by different cultures - most of them are less insightful than the stories made up by individual poets and writers.

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.

You know what? I feel my book is kind of pointless. I didn't want to do a book, but rather than tell the same old stories over and over when my wife Angie and I are out at parties, I could just hand out a bunch of books, and she won't have to hear them ever again.

For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express myself better, and like I have a greater clarity about what I want to do.

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason. I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

I am just so glad to be a part of the industry right now, where everyone from across the country want to collaborate with each other and tell really beautiful stories.

I have heard a lot of good stories about the UAE through my colleagues and those who have been here.

I have this huge dossier on sports that I had collected over 10 years. Every human interest story has been cut out and filed away.

You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I thought that these are just another avenue for telling stories and delving into the imagination.

I'm not ashamed of comic books. You have some people that are like, 'We're trying to elevate comic books.' Comic books have always told great dramatic stories.

My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.

I tend to stay away from the comics.

Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.

Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.

I've loved comics since I was very young, and I've always liked telling stories.

There are some short stories in R. Crumb comics that are just wonderful and touch me in ways no other comics do.

I think when it comes to comics, I've been a lifelong comic book fan.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.