Quotes About Story

Later, over his favorite grand crème in the Café des Marauds, he was listening with half an ear to Joséphine as she told him the story of the village's first chocolate festival and the resistance it had met from the church. The coffee was good, sprinkled with shavings of dark chocolate and with a cinnamon biscuit by the side of the cup. Narcisse was sitting opposite with his usual seed catalogue and a café-cassis.

After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster; topple walls; scale mountains - hey, a story can even raise the dead.

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

I once read that every story is a love story. Love of a person, a country, a way of life. Which means, of course, that all tragedies are about losing what you love.

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

You can't be real, Delilah murmurs. Says who? I ask. Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life.

When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story.

My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.

What a day it has been.. When I look back to it, I can say: This was one hell of a crazy thing that I did in my life...Kids, this is my life.

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story.

No one has ever been angry at another human being we're only angry at our story of them.

Self-description: a man listening to a pretty girl's tiresome story, patiently waiting for the chance to sleep with her. It never happens.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Never believe everything you hear. Because there are always three sides of a story. Yours, theirs and the truth.

Being single does not mean no one wants you, it just means that God is busy writing your love story. So have patience, may you soon get the Love of your life.

Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed by the pictures that were missing or never even taken at all, not the ones that had been so carefully framed or packed away neatly in an envelope.

Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.

We are here. And then we are not here. For a little while, we are a story. ...layers of lived life...

Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.