Stories Quotes
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There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'
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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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Things are going to happen whether you are there or not, you still need someone to push the button on the camera and get it and know it's going to work of the story.
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But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.
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Because this territory in my internal universe is continually shifting, I've learned to look for patterns and rhythms in the chaos that I can use as guides when I can't locate steady ground. So I make maps from my memories. I make my maps out of words and stories.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.
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...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.
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You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.
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When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
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For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.
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Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story.
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The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.
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For some reason, our media are fascinated by stories that appear to harm American National interests.
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What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
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I see a lot of people who have amazing stories but have been told that their work, their lives, and their stories and not the stuff of literature. Or they're first-generation college student, first-generation American, and their family just doesn't understand the art world. They have a lot of guilt. "We came all the way from [wherever] so you could do this?" Those people may not be showing the moxie, but that's because they don't even know what's possible. So I want to jump in and say, "Actually, your story is amazing, and I believe in you.".
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I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.
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All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.
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The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
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The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.
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What I've always been most interested in is exposing the way stories and fantasies reconstitute our everyday reality. What appears to be non-fiction is not only totally mysterious, unfathomable, and strange when you really look at what it is.
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I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.
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Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.
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Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.
