Happens Quote by Busy Philipps

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

— Mary Norton

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

— Lord Byron

I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.

— Martin McDonagh

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

— Neil Gaiman

Sometimes you have to accept that people's part in your story is over.

— Anonymous

It's easy for people to say stuff when they don't know the full story.

— Brittney Griner

“Unless a story has a specific ending you know when you start it then a story is as long as a story needs to…

— Ray Daley

The thing about stories is that they almost always find their way onto the page, even if it takes a while.

— Karl Iagnemma

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final…

— Alice Munro

Sometimes you don't find out why you needed to tell a story until you're telling it.

— Misha Green

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.

— Mike Nichols