Stories Quotes
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A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
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How do we change the world? Change the story.
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Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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I want to make another film. I want to make a better film about the legendary Babaji, with more close-encounter stories of people who have been with him.
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I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.
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Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
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Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.
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I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.
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My whole story is just about me having a second chance.
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I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.
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I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
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If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.
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Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With warmth and unflinching candor she leads us through a personal journey of faith and maturity that is as funny as it is affecting.
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Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.
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It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.
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The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.
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All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.
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I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
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Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
