Quotes About Story

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining.

Il y avait derrière cette voix toute une histoire de nuits sombres, quelque chose d'exquis, quelque chose de dangereux.

Roly Grain, his name was, and he does not have any further part in what I'm writing now, in spite of his troll's name, because this is not a story, only life.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. [ A Conversation with Alice Munro , BookBrowse, 1998]

If this were fiction, as I said, it would be too much, but it is true.

In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheater, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. I was told this story by the police. In comparison, they said, I was lucky.

Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose to tell it, even to one person at a time.

I loved sitting on the pile of freshly cut logs, running my hands over the different shapes and smelling their woody fragrance. To this day I think that there is nothing as interesting to look at as a heap of newly cut logs, the delicate colouring of their veined insides telling their life story, while they wait to bring warmth and comfort.

Trying to believe his story kilt her.

What is your story, and how do you want to share it with the world? If you aren't ready to share, tell your stories to yourself and let it nourish and guide you.

This is one of my difficulties now... my fear that Mom will find this memoir about her angry. Another difficulty is the fact that the story of my mother and me is unfolding even as I write it.

Some people tell lies about the past. Her dad tells lies about the future. He is always telling a new story.

I suspected that I would reach the end only at my own death, and was fascinated by the idea that I was another character in the story, and that I had the power to determine my fate, or invent a life for myself.

The moral of this story is not everything that's slick is non-stick, and not everything non-stick is slick.

A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There's a song in there somewhere, I reckon.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be.

what really happened doesn't matter half so much as what people want to hear.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

Science fiction as a genre has the benefit of being able to act as parable, to set up a story at a remove so you can make a real-world point without people throwing up a wall in front of it.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.

No. You can't understand. Because you're reading the last chapter of something without having read the first chapter. You're a little guy, Bode. Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when they're usually coming in at the end.

There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out.

No you can't understand because you are reading the last chapter of something with out having read the first chapters. Young people always think they are coming into a story at the beginning when they are usually coming in at the end.