Quotes About Story

An empty page. A new story waiting for a thought, a hint, a desire.

My future, I feel, is narrow, and I would like my story to be carried out into the world.

Here, my story began. Now I feel as if another story's just beginning.

Lonely Ays, imprisoned in an icy structure he had built around his heart. Casmeer did not like this person, but neither could he abandon him. Not yet. Ays had a story, a life. It had to be written. A history had formed for Ays, a changeable history. Where had it come from?

The next journey, the next story, he thought.

You are like a character from a story, who has strayed from the path, but strives for redemption.

You followed a story and the story was partly your own.

Listen, then, for I am a soulscapter and have the gift of the story tongue.

It is like breathing to us, and to ignore math in this story would be akin to listening to Frank Zappa without ever having taken hallucinogens, an incomplete experience.

there. "The guard at the gate can confirm my story," he said.

Because a book is a life, like one man is a life.

We do not write the story of childhood with a dry-erase board, we write with a permanent Sharpie.

Everyone's life is an unfolding story, and all stories have good guys and bad guys, and all stories have conflicts and resolutions, and all stories--if they are interesting--have drama.

I already told you a ghost story," she said at last. "The one where the wife was invisible to the husband and the truth of the marriage was invisible to her.

I no longer know that story. The narrator is unreliable.

stories are not just in books or movies. Everyone's life is an unfolding story, and all stories have good guys and bad guys, and all stories have conflicts and resolutions, and all stories--if they are interesting--have drama.

The real story starts somewhere in the past. Chapter 5 First thing I do when I get home from

It has just been on the news that a man has been found in the Queen's bedroom. Radio Four said that the man was an intruder and was previously unknown to the Queen. My father said: 'That's her story.

The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn't money; it's a story. Of the arduous journey here, the snow on the streets, the rude immigration agent or the kindly social worker; the lights of the Eiffel Tower or the cold reception from the cousins with whom he's staying.

History is His story. You haven't heard my story.

it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled with a version of my problem and tried to make sense of her story in her own language.

Therapy can seem like revision of memory. It can seem like you're saving your life by destroying your story and writing a new one. It can seem like therapy won't get its goddamn grubby mitts off you.

I almost obsessively began reading about what was happening with the so-called Islamic State. But I couldn't find an angle on the story.

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions.