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Quotes About Story

En cada página está el poder de decir lo indecible… al igual que está en la historia entre bastidores del propio libro
~ Eve Ensler
Part of reparative reading is trying to think about how a story cannot do everything. Nothing can do everything. If you're reading every text, fiction, or criticism looking for it to tick a bunch of boxes — like if it represents X, Y, and Z appropriately to my definitions of appropriate, and if it's missing any of those things, it's not good — you're not really seeing the close focus that it has on something else.
~ Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.
~ Ezio Auditore da Firenze
An epic is a poem including history.
~ Ezra Pound
Asked about his beautiful gold pocket watch, Woody Allen said :"I'm very attached to it, my grandfather sold it to me on his deathbed!"
~ Fabrice
The last story, "Off the Grid," is one I'm incredibly excited about. It's from Jane's point of view, and it introduces a character named Nell Nicholson.
~ Faith Hunter
The intrusion fantasy uses the form of the club story - the unquestioned tale - to construct reality, then renders the walls of the world-story translucent.
~ Farah Mendlesohn
All roles are visible , when the story ends
~ Fardan Akhter
Life was a blank page written in invisible ink, a tale all told, just waiting to be deciphered.
~ Faye Kellerman
I write well-fleshed out characters, and inevitably, more ideas spring from my subconscious. They all have a little bit of me in them. It's very hard to figure out in advance how a story will unfold, but after having written so many novels, I feel more comfortable letting the ideas come up from somewhere in my own subconscious. Writing is much easier now because that sense of panic I used to experience doesn't set in as I begin a new book.
~ Faye Kellerman
The paramedics told me the story." He checked the clock, then signed a clipboard attached
~ Faye Kellerman
Por entonces nadie podia imaginar que aquel encuentro fortuito seria el inicio de una historia que habria de trascender generaciones y geografias.
~ Federico Andahazi
If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be understood. But what did the volume of words matter in any language when she couldn't even manage to ask the simplest questions? Will you tell me your story? Will you let me in to my own family? Isn't it my story, too?
~ Fiona Wood
I truly believe that everyone has a story and everyone's story counts.
~ Firoozeh Dumas
Tu erai cea mai frumoas? poveste de dragoste a mea.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
~ Frances Farmer
I don't want a happy ending. I want more story.
~ Frances Hardinge
Chic Murray once told me, he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, 'Did you fall?' He said, 'No, I'm trying to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.
~ Billy Connolly
There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.
~ Billy Corgan
What is your story? Be ready to share it when the Lord gives you the opportunity.
~ Billy Graham
Those who read the Scriptures as magnificent literature, breath-taking poetry, or history and overlook the story of salvation miss the Bible's real meaning and message.
~ Billy Graham
The Bible is primarily concerned with the story of man's redemption as it is in Jesus Christ. If you read Scripture and miss the story of salvation, you have missed its message and its meaning.
~ Billy Graham
But there are no happy endings unless we cut the story short, and as far as I know, there are no rules of etiquette to a miracle, either.
~ Binnie Kirshenbaum