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Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

Scars are stories, history written on the body

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story.

SEEING BELIEVING what’s in front of you is not necessarily the entire story

See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is “Story of O” by the French writer Dominique Aury. This is actually the forerunner of all the whole SM novels and it's really good. You have to read it.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

Share your stories of your worst moments as well as your best. Let your sisters know their problems are not unique and they are not alone.

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because Cammon could read souls, but Tayse was the only one she would tell.

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.

She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.

Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.