Quotes About Story

Yes... no one knows how the story will end. Perhaps... a miracle will occur. So right here and now...laugh with others as much as you can.

I'll sing you a ditty that needs no apology-- Attend, and keep watch in the gates of your ears!-- Of the famous new science which men call Geology, And gods call the story of millions of years.

Si no pasa la prueba del «¿Dice de qué va?», no has dado con tu título. Ni tienes aún el doble gancho que constituye junto a una gran premisa.

Because liking the person we go on a journey with is the single most important element in drawing us into the story.

The Covenant of the Arc is the screenwriting law that says: Every single character in your movie must change in the course of your story. The only characters who don't change are the bad guys. But the hero and his friends change a lot.

Ofrece lo mismo tu premisa? El planteamiento que me presentas de tu comedia o de tu drama, ¿hace que se desboque mi imaginación previendo hacia dónde puede derivar la historia? Si no es así, aún no tienes premisa.

Finally, this book can — and should — be read as a story of growth from knowledge into wisdom, of intellectual and spiritual education.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

There is a rumor that seven states are considering overpruning as a cause for divorce, second only to incompatibility and adultery. I hope our state is one of them. No judge would dare deny me freedom after he heard the story of my privet hedge.

Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed that mood, and let the shape of the story flow from that.

The business of the historian is with the truth of things, but he is too much under temptation to make his history interesting, to be always able to reject a fine story.

When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. —Jeff Bezos, commencement speech at Princeton University, May 30, 2010

When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. —Jeff Bezos, commencement speech at Princeton

anecdotal evidence.

Everyone is their own universe—a life, a dream, a hope, a sorrow, a joy, a surprise, a revelation, a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end—even when they simply walk by you on the street.

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo .

We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story's end.

Dr. Samuel Johnson, who admired the novel with absolute conviction, famously remarked to Boswell, "Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story…you would hang yourself….You must read him for the sentiment.

As Kipling said, that's another story...

I like the structure of the crime story, but most of all I like the ecosystem in which the genre flourishes: the festivals, the websites, the fans, the fact that you have your own special section of the bookshop. And crime is cool, too. It's dark and edgy and funny and intelligent. I love it.

According to Chekhov, Tamaru said, rising from his chair, once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired. Meaning what? Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.

Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn't make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.