Quotes About Story

I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

Once upon a time is now.

Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time.

Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.

A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.

It made natural headlines. Prostitutes being murdered suggested a titillating story. Moreover, citizens, living in nice safe houses, whose wives and daughters were never alone on the streets could be reassured.

Perhaps robbing someone of his or her story is the greatest betrayal of all.

I have nothing to fear and here my story ends. My troubles are all over, and I am at home.

Every illness is not a set of pathologies but a personal story

When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had been reorganized by color and size. Shortly thereafter, the decorator met with a fatal automobile accident. I confess that when this story was told, everyone.around the dinner table concurred that justice had been served.)

Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people you are getting to know better every day, something is bound to happen.

But be careful: if your intuition says that your story sucks, make sure it really is your intuition and not your mother.

Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people you know and are getting to know better day by day, something is bound to happen. Characters should not, conversely, serve as pawns for some plot you've dreamed up. Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT.

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

The development of relationship creates plot.

A story does not need to be hot. Stories are usually about a modest salvation.

It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

There's an old story," he said, "about a saint who once said, 'Even when the Prince of Darkness takes the form of an angel of light, you'll know him by his reptilian tail.

Dear Reader, he switched human bodies before I made him a vampire, worry no more. It has nothing to do with this story.

Can't always be the living legend."-Louis

In the story of the prince and the frog, there's always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.