Quotes About Story

If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.

If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter.

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.

come to the end of this story I cannot help wondering what it might take to bring about the shift in consciousness in the society as a whole, the change of paradigm, that is implicit in what the abductees have undergone.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

I sat smiling wretchedly, my heart weeping for The Little Dog Laughed, for every well-turned phrase, for the little flecks of poetry through it, my first story, the best thing I could show for my whole life. It was the record of all that was good in me, approved and printed by the great J. C. Hackmuth, and she had torn it up and thrown it into a spittoon.

These things I shall remember by the way, and often they may seem to be the very tale itself, as when I was living them in happiness and sorrow. But now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop, I know it was the story of a mighty vision given to a man too weak to use it; of a holy tree that should have flourished in a people's heart with flowers and singing birds, and now is withered; and of a people's dream that died in bloody snow.

Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.

In Matthew and Mark the story follows the discussion about divorce, and in so doing contrasts the simple acceptance of the gospel by children to the previous complex and difficult teachings

A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden of the story is to the author's psyche.

Aldred the weasel took up the tale.

The (Bible) story is much more powerful as Truth than as metaphor.