I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
Joseph Barbera

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.
Charlotte Church

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
Sarah Zettel

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
Manuel Puig

I've always thought my poems told stories.
Douglas Dunn

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.
Tom Selleck

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

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
Tobias Wolff

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.
Neil LaBute

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
Stanley Crouch

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
Ann Beattie

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.
Elia Kazan

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
Barbara Deming

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
Manuel Puig

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
Nigel Kneale

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.
Don Bluth

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
Tobias Wolff

I like the stories with the historical themes.
Sarah Sutton

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
Robert Morgan