Quotes About Story

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

This is who I am. This is who I have always been. I am in pain. I am always in pain. But I always find my way to the story. And I always find my way home.

And the tombstone will never answer. Because the dead have only the voices we give to them.

You realize you've never walked in another person's shoes. Never have. Never will. The same is true in adoption. There are three sets of adoption shoes sitting at the end of the boardwalk. The adoptees...the birth parents'...and the adoptive parents'. Each is unique and each has a story to tell.

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book's first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.

What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly. "Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most intriguing story about my life moonlighting as a kidnapper.

I think if anybody is making a movie about your life something pretty incredible had to happen.

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.