Quotes About Journey

What the novelist is doing, though, is not causing readers to feel as the novelist does, or as his characters do, but rather inducing for each reader a unique emotional journey through a story.

The most useful question is not how can I get across what characters are going through? The better question is how can I get readers to go on emotional journeys of their own?

She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

Here are two things I found taking the long road, though: Applause is a quick fix. And love is an acquired taste.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference.

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.

You're right," he finally said. "You aren't living a good story." "That's what I was saying." "I see," he said. "What do I do about that?" "You're a writer. You know what to do." "No, I don't." Jordan looked at me with his furrowed brow again. "You put something on the page," he said. "Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

There's truth in the idea we're never going to be perfect in love but we can get close. And the closer we get, the healthier we will be. Love is not a game any of us can win, it's just a story we can live and enjoy.

And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it's not natural to want to die.

Some people skip through life; some people are dragged through it.

The goal for our branding should be that every potential customer knows exactly where we want to take them:

The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It's about your character getting

There are no specific results mentioned or details about what life is like now that the transformation has taken place. If you're asking customers to write a

Pain then, if one could have faith in something greater than himself, might be a path to experiencing a meaning beyond the false gratification of personal comfort.

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.