Quotes About Story

How'd you get that scar? Attacked by an eagle in Afghanistan. I was kind of looking forward to that exchange.

Myth is mecessary because reality is so much larger than rationality.

Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.' ...I jot this phrase of invocation in my old leather-bound notebook on a bright, cold morning at the Café **** in Paris, and with it I'm inspired to take the reader back to the time I first met and became acquainted with the girl I call The Wanderess—as well as a famous adventurer named Saul, the Son of Solarus.

Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren't satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting.

Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.

Collectively we read Andrea Elliott's story, "The Journey to a Culture of Thinking.

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

The Hebrews were—and are—first and foremost a people of a story. What held the Hebrews together was not so much a sociocultural style or geographical place, because those varied; rather, it was an affirmation about God, about humankind, and about the nature of the universe. The Hebrews were radical monotheists who founded their personal and collective identities on an assertion of belief that their God was the creator and sustainer of the universe.

Every love story needs a closure. If it is denied that, it drifts aimlessly between the earth and the sky like a ghost..

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she has a tattooed hawk, diving down to chase blue swallows to her wrist. She is saving money to have the blue swallows fly up her right arm to feed their nestlings at the top of that shoulder. That way when she clasps her hands she will wear a story of escape.

To make a long story short, you're all vile, dangerous, cowardly...

She upset the kids. She told them a really awful story about a pet she had when she was little." "How bad could a pet story be?" "Well," Clea said, knowing this fell in the "only in our family" category, "it eviscerated her cats and could have killed my mother in her sleep. I'd say that's good for a few nightmares, wouldn't you?

Everyday Lucybelle looked for a hairline fracture, a place in the social fabric of not just SIPRE, but Chicago, the whole country, where truth might collect like rain, freeze, and force open the gap. This was the story she wanted to tell, the novel she wanted to write, but first she had to find the chink.

Não deu chances ao tempo para desmoralizá-lo com mais detalhes. Com o tempo, os detalhes estragam qualquer biografia

To approach Emily Dickinson through the feud, to search out why it happened and to follow its consequences to the present day, is one of many possible stories. A feud, at least, is verifiable.

I find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story.

Nem eu, nem tu, nem ela, nem qualquer outra pessoa desta história poderia responder mais, tão certo é que o destino, como todos os dramaturgos, não anuncia as peripécias nem o desfecho. Eles chegam a seu tempo, até que o pano cai, apagam-se as luzes, e os espectadores vão dormir. Nesse gênero há porventura alguma coisa que reformar, e eu proporia, como ensaio, que as peças começassem pelo fim. 

Eugênia desfiou uma historiazinha de toucador, que omito em suas particularidades por não interessar ao nosso caso, bastando saber que a razão capital da divergência entre as duas amigas fora uma opinião de Cecília acerca da escolha de um chapéu.

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

All of life is a story

Love does not triumph easily or without pain, but story gives us the courage to endure the pain.