Stories Quotes
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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
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The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.
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The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
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We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.
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A miracle is an invitation into a new story.
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Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
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If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.
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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.
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When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
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This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way.
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.
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If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
