Quotes About Story

ways. Most often, the trials we are walking through today are preparing us for a greater role in God's unfolding story.

I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me.

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries. (Robert Jastrow, astronomer)

Input, output, end of story. This is a very mechanistic and ultimately dehumanizing model for how people find and use information. In

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

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

She picked up her book and tried to read but it was heavy in her hands. She struggled to hold it, wanting to finish the story, wanting to know how it ended. She was afraid she'd run out of time before she ran out of book.

But they both knew that words were weapons too, and when fashioned into a story their power was almost limitless.

The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.

The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life. The

I turned into Little Red Riding Hood. I made a cake, packed it up and went through the forest until I met the wolves. That's something the story got wrong, wolves don't travel solo, they hunt in packs.

I write from emotion. It's important to remember that even though one may be writing about something totally out of one's experience, one should insert a thread of familiar emotion through it. I often start out with the main character's state of mind in my stories because it sets the tone to the whole book.

I have no control over certain elements of my story. I can nudge my characters/story line there, but can't make them behave the way I think they should, no matter how I try.

Hugh had been her obsession. When he was away, she had assumed he was with other women. It drove her crazy, dominated her thoughts. She had tried to concentrate on her daughters, but her own insecurity was much too huge. When Skye would beg for a story or Clea would need help with her music lessons, Augusta would tell them to ask Caroline. So Augusta could be with Hugh.

theogony" and "cosmogony." What do they mean? In truth, these archaic Greek terms are quite simple, as well as interchangeable. The birth (-gony) of the world (cosmos) and the birth (-gony) of the gods (theo) are one and the same: the cosmogony, the birth of the cosmos, is also and reciprocally a theogony, a story about the origins of divinity.

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

This time of night, the sky was flung wide open, stars spread like a story across the horizon.

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues.

A level of a house, his father has told him, is called a story. Nathaniel likes that. It makes him feel like maybe he is living between the covers of a book himself. Like maybe everyone in every home is sure to get a happy ending.

I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.

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.

I know I told you to go to hell, I say, but I'm glad you ignored me. Delia, that newspaper story-- You know what? I say, trying to keep my voice from breaking. Right now, I don't need a journalist. But I sure could use a friend. He hunches his shoulders. I have references. I offer up the smallest smile, a bridge between us. Actually, I confess, you're the only one who applied.