#stories

We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#compare #hearts #know #may #only

Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#books #caves #characters #i #i do

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#country #personal #stories #stupid

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#bad #beauty #books #experience #life

I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs. I don't drink so the DUI is false. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#any #drink #fake #false #help

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#assistance #care #dental #free #greatly

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#confessed #lies #live #stories #tell

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#anymore #became #because #change #cut

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those. ↗

— David Spade

#civilians #hear #i #lot #relationships

A novel, in which all is created by the author's whim, must strike a more profound level of truth, or it is worthless." "And yet, I have heard you say that any novel that relieves your ennui for an hour has proved its usefulness." "You have a good memory. It must have been ten thousands of years ago that I uttered those words." "And if it was?" "In another ten thousand, perhaps I will agree with them again." "In my opinion, the proper way to judge a novel is this: Does it give one an accurate reflection of the moods and characteristics of a particular group of people in a particular place at a particular time? If so, it has value. Otherwise, it has none." "You do not find this rather narrow?" "Madam—" "Well?" "I was quoting you. ↗

— Steven Brust

#novels #stories #literary-criticism