Story Quotes
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Only when we feel the story in each of its moments or places are we able to tell it properly.
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I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?
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The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!
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Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.
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My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.
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History is a ghost story.
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I can think of no better way to meet a girl than to see her through the eyes of the story she loves best.
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When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.
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The first principle was “Story Is King,” by which we meant that we would let nothing—not the technology, not the merchandising possibilities—get in the way of our story.
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Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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There is no back label with a story on a beer can.
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People have forgotten how to tell a story.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
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I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.
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I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.
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If something wants to be a story, it will be.
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Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story - because there's an inherent voice you're trying to copy (and often to satirize).
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Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.
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Sometimes, we become so familiar with the primal sacred story of the Bible that we need some fresh takes on it, telling us the same thing in different ways, or giving us some new vantage points to see what was always there, things we'd missed before.
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Thus the story of the facts has to reckon with filters, deferments, partial truths, half lies: from it comes an arduous measurement of time passed that is based completely on the unreliable measuring device of words.
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I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story yet in fact are nothing, nothing of mine, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion, only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even she who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.
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No one is making me say this. No one is making me tell this story. Nobody’s ever been much good at making me say anything I hadn’t already made up my mind to say.
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You can't blame a book for its story.
