#tories

There’s an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous relief in that sense of how they were written to allow primary emotion, elemental emotion, to matter enormously but to give the thing an extraordinary flow so you don’t notice at what point that you’re actually overwhelmed by this. There’s no showiness, at all. It’s the opposite of showiness. I think, if it was a painting, it could be very grey abstract, almost, with some lines and very, very beautiful. But you wouldn’t have a notion of where the beauty was. (Talking about the short stories of Alistair MacLeod, who he discovered while working on The Modern Library.) ↗

— Colm Tóibín

#fiction #short-stories #beauty

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american-dream #fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #short-stories #women

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#been #ever #i #love #love stories

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#encouragement #example #giving #stewardship #stories

There's a great argument about how many men he actually killed. People would tell stories and then as we all know as stories get told over and over again, they get embellished, facts get changed, elaborated upon, exaggerated. ↗

— Keith Carradine

#actually #again #argument #changed #elaborated

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#here #i #main #main street #need

I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything. ↗

— Roma Downey

#balancing #bedtime #being #demands #i

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all. ↗

— Barry Hannah

#come #concern #form #nowhere #out

That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#sad-stories #stories #death

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#did #giving #i #i think #joy