#tories

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#films #lovely #pieces #simple #stories

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#first #give #i #myself #number

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every

This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows. ↗

— John Barnes

#calliope #dead-princes #sleeping-beauty #stories #tales

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#cycle #deconstruct #fiction #i #part

I write short stories, and I wrote a play. ↗

— Rita Dove

#i write #play #short #short stories #stories

I've been taking longer to write stories lately. ↗

— Greg Egan

#i #lately #longer #stories #taking

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#beat #certain #doing #exchange #exist

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#day #life #mother #next #one day

Television's not going read stories to you. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#read #stories #television #you