Stories Quotes

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That’s when it’s so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

All the backstories are there but not talked about.

We show the girls lots of pictures and tell a lot of stories about both of our childhoods.

I’m a very private person. My life story isn’t for everybody.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].

While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I’m trying to do. I’m frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

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