Story Quotes
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The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.
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I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.
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When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.
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Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
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To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.
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I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.
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Yes,but the news is no different from the drunk in the corner bar:he might have a good story, but that doesn't maen you can trust it.
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Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents.
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The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
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Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?
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There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the most important questions to ask yourself when you begin writing a story is this: Whose story is it? You need to make a commitment to one or perhaps a few characters.
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Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.
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But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
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You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.
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I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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Every great love starts with a great story.
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At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.
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That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
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I came from the sea and to the sea I would return, to be immersed in her story, ever lost and everlasting.
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Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
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Rooted in the word history is story. And America's story is exceptional. It's amazing. Younger students should learn that we have always been and continue to be a land of immigrants - a land committed to bold new ideas.
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This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.
