Quotes About Tale

Until my ghastly tale is told, this heart within me burns.

at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

Like most adventures, it was best experienced in the telling, rather than the execution.

it is a Tale. Only it's longer and stranger than we imagine. Longer and stranger than we can imagine. So what you must do—" she opened her eyes "—what you must do, and what I must do, is forget.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

History: gossip well told.

Don Achille was the ogre of fairy tales

That way the story is put on the same footing as life, because a story is a life that didn't happen, and a life is a story that didn't get told.

Speaking about the ultimate reality of life to a very large majority of people is like narrating an epic story in full detail to them and then in the end only getting a basic question from them as who the lead protagonist was there in this whole tale.

Though you may be a wanderer, living out your days in exile, home is with you always, in blood-song and bone map, and in the echo of your mother's voice as you tell her favorite tale to your children or the children who gather around you in the land of your exile. Home is your most constant companion.

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I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.

If there is a good story, I will take it up.

I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.

'Thirteen Orphans' is the name of a specific limit hand. The same combination is also called 'Thirteen Improbable.' Once I'd decided I wanted to write a tale where mah-jong would be at the heart, I also knew I wanted to use limit hands.

WITHOUT MEMORY, there is no debt. Put another way: without story, there is no debt.

Calling a piece of short fiction a "tale" removes it at least slightly from the realm of mundane works and days, as it evokes the world of the folk tale, the wonder tale, and the long-ago teller of tales.

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it? I'm the one really telling it, after all.

The tale can't be told without one link being connected to the other and we poor orphans of ticking time know no other means of measure than those of sequence.

You have a tale to tell, you are ancient, and deeply broken. I feel love for you and cherish that it is what it is and nothing more.

Mine was the naïveté of the living; now it is the confusion and longing of the dead. Pray when I am finished with this tale, I will go on to something greater. Punishment even would have its shape, its purpose, some conviction of meaning. I cannot imagine eternal flames. But I can imagine eternal meaning.