Quotes About Story

The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented. . . . Faulkner in the University, 117

I think the story compels its own style to a great extent that the writer don't need to bother too much about style. If he's bothering about style, then he's going to write precious emptiness–-not necessarily nonsense... it'll be quite beautiful and quite pleasing to the ear, but there won't be much content in it. ~William Faulkner~

I prefer to think that no writer has got time to be too concerned with style, that he is simply telling this dramatic instance in the most effective way he knows, that the book, the story, creates its own style.

And someone said, —Nothing queer about Carruthers . . . to conclude, once for all, the story of that subaltern and his mare.

I like it. A Silicon Valley ghost story.

And finally telling her story to Wilf Netherton, who'd looked like a low-key infomercial for an unnamed product.

I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'.

Not that it matters, but most of what follows is true.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

The challenge of Jesus is the political dilemma of how to be faithful to a strange community, which is shaped by a story of how God is with us. In this chapter we will challenge the assumption, so prevalent at least since Constantine, that the church is judged politically by how well or ill the church's presence in the world works to the advantage of the world.

The history of all love is writ with one pen.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

The story's power, then, is twofold: It provides simulation (knowledge about how to act) and inspiration (motivation to act).

for creating a successful idea: a Simple Unexpected Concrete Credentialed Emotional Story.

Lav and Kush must have conspired and taken the manuscript from our hut when I was busy elsewhere. They must have practised singing it in secret. They must have decided to perform it in my honour, risking the anger of their guru as well as their new-found father to tell the world my story.

But history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are obviously morbid. Really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? You get the point. Besides, my grandparents' story deserves to be told, regardless of their nationalities.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Creativity is the auma of the universe, David. A good story, written with heart and feeling, can touch many people and raise their awareness of global issues.

Chris Grabenstein

But Pinocchio's just a story," said Billy. "It's not real." "That's exactly what I told Dr. Libris! When I did, he shook his head and said I had 'no imagination whatsoever.' Ã¢â'¬Â "That's awful." "Yeah. Dr. Libris can be kind of crabby. That's why I never rowed out to his island except that one time. Didn't want him going all grumpy on me.

Walter the Farting Dog." The six geese spun around and farted, their tail feathers flipping up in sync with the noisy blasts. "Excellent. End story time." The geese slumped

So, where is he?" "In trouble," said Hercules. "Why? What'd he do?" "He read a book," said Tom Sawyer. "All about that beanstalk fellow, Jack." "It was a good story," said Hercules. "Action. Adventure. Glory.

Public opinion can often be swayed by emotion with little regard for facts. If the story is fascinating enough, facts may not matter to those hearing it" -Mr. Khatchadourian