Stories Like Quotes

28 quotes by 28 authors

Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's… — William Faulkner
I believe in love â€” yes, I'm one of those girls. Most of my friends believe in love. I went out with Katy Perry last… — Selena
Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of… — Bartlett Sher
I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself. — Victoria Abril
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends… — David Abram
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in… — Harold Brodkey
Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask. — Sean O Faolain
In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people… — Alex Flinn
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff. — Paul Thomas Anderson
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams. — Steven Millhauser
Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world. — Sharad Devarajan
I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who… — Don Hewitt
Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff… — Michael Chabon
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as… — Maria Tatar
I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm… — Fred Seibert
You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that. — Caroline Dhavernas
And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future… — Michael N. Castle
Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've… — Jodi Lynn Anderson
I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes. — John Steinbeck
I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories… — Saul Williams

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