Quotes About Story

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

Life is an adventurous story filled with triumph and tragedy.

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

Human life is a great story written by the mysterious, mystical and magical human mind.

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story.

I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

Life is like a Book, Everyone has their own new chapters

When young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape...

Be a great writer when you write your life's song.

Each planet has a story to tell.With Mars it was nuclear aniallation.With Venus it was industrial madness.With Earth? I guess that greed will be the answer.

Life is not a dream to be dreamed but a story to be written.

A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.

A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory

Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.

[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.

Things began happening with odd synchronicity, as if the universe itself was conspiring on behalf of their love story.