Quotes About Story

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

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

It is a long story, I'm afraid, sir. Yes, he agreed, they usually are.

But that was the second version, she reminded him. In the first one you had died and gone to heaven and found it was a brothel..

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what proceeds it.

There's an old Jewish story that says in the beginning God was everywhere and everything, a totality. But to make creation, God had to remove himself from some part of the universe, so something besides Himself could exist. So He breathed in, and in the places where God withdrew, there creation exists. And Matthew 10:29.

There's an old Jewish story that says in the beginning God was everywhere and everything, a totality. But to make creation, God had to remove Himself from some part of the universe, so something besides Himself could exist. So He breathed in, and in the places where God withdrew, there creation exists.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs

We seem to have lost the gift of patience, of waiting for time to unfold its story.

The best memoirists stress the subjective nature of reportage. Doubt and wonder come to stand as part of the story.

for a good story, told often enough puts you in rooms you've never occupied.

She felt that Paolo's story would teach me a lesson, the punch line of which was something like divorcing a salary man for somebody who punches a clock was bad manners.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story. Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think— no, you will realize— that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying.

the dark heart of the story that is all the reason for its telling?

Did I actually reach out my arms toward it, toward paradise falling, like the fading of the dearest, wildest hope- the dark heart of the story that is all the reason for its telling?

Memory: a golden bowl, or a basement without light. For which reason the nightmare comes with its painful story and says: you need to know this. Some memories I would give anything to forget. Others I would not give up upon the point of death, they are the bright hawks of my life.