#stories

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#babylon #big #biggest #different #ever

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#ballads #country #even #feeling #listen

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#guises #long #long time #many #notice

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#age #age group #begin #beyond #communicate

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#action #brutal #character #grace #hard

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. ↗

— Ben Okri

#conquer #fear #heart #know #make

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones. ↗

— Ben Okri

#another #dream #else #everybody #everybody else

The greatest religions convert the world through stories. ↗

— Ben Okri

#greatest #religions #stories #through #world

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#because #i #i think #inventive #new

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told. ↗

— Marc Davis

#been #before #done #had #never