Quotes About Stories

Indeed, "theory" is a poor word to choose when seeking to understand the testimony of the Bible. 14 The Old and New Testaments do not present theories at any time. 15 Instead, we find stories, images, metaphors, symbols, sagas, sermons, songs, letters, poems. It would be hard to find writing that is less theoretical.

The believers of the future will be brought into the near presence of Jesus, not just in the sense that the stories of his life will be retold, but because the apostolic preaching, by the action of the Spirit, makes Jesus present.

I always had funny stories to tell, but my family members never laughed at them.

I'm a big historical-fiction fan.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

When you are gestating, you feel full of life, you feel full of joy, you feel full of fantasy, of stories.

As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.

What I thought was fascinating about comparative religion was that these were the stories that humans have told themselves about where they come from, who they are and where they're going, and what it means to be alive on the planet.

It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

But the general audience, if you want to grow your audience you need to tell stories, you need to have characters, and that's how you bring them in. That's my favorite part of the business.

I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.

The strength of 'The Gift' is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves.

I've got some stories to tell, and acting was a way I could express myself and not feel stupid. I fell in love with that.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

I'm always a little apprehensive about 'decoding' fictional stories.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.