All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
Vladimir NabokovThis is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)
Elizabeth GilbertThink of all the stories you've heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His parents are killed he sets out for vengeance. What next?"
Bast hesitated, his expression puzzled. Chronicler answered the question instead. "He finds help. A clever talking squirrel. An old drunken swordsman. A mad hermit in the woods. That sort of thing."
Kvothe nodded. "Exactly! He finds the mad hermit in the woods, proves himself worthy, and learns the names of all things, just like Taborlin the Great. Then with these powerful magics at his beck and call, what does he do?"
Chronicler shrugged. "He finds the villains and kills them."
"Of course," Kvothe said grandly. "Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
Samuel R. DelanyA well told story can be magic. Let me show you...
JoLynne ValerieHenry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.)
Samuel BeckettTags: stories self play beckett embers
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
Susan Elizabeth PhillipsTags: books love writers stories authors author heroine
They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
Alice HoffmanTags: stories on-fiction fiction storytelling fairy-tale
Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: children stories growing
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
Joss WhedonTags: writing perspective stories humour dark joke
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