#stories

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

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#bring #character #character development #days #development

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up. ↗

— Larry Niven

#catch #clear #every #friend #got

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them. ↗

— Larry Niven

#buy #five #got #i #kicking

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

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#love #stories #storytelling #tell #thing

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#aside #begin #complete #desk #drawer

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