#tories

You know, the world is all about balance. You lose something here... maybe somebody else picks it up over there. ↗

— Natasha Larry

#short-stories #young-adult-fantasy #attitude

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #misfortune #stories #unhappiness #life

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#author #computer #computer program #construct #him

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#i #just #part #relevant #stories

Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#administration #anonymous #best #gotten #i

I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#finish #four #got #had #i

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#above #am #compelling #desire #everything

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that. ↗

— R. Kelly

#classy #come #content #create #i

I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#going #grow #guy #guys #i

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#end #failure #few #good #good stories