Quotes About Story

That is just a story, Jonathan." Jonathan considered. "Like Jesus, then." The parson frowned and was lost for words.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Los casos de Sherlock Holmes. Tomar diez páginas, dos veces al día, hasta finalizar el tratamiento».

It doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They come and go, and when they go, they're gone for good.

What makes it noteworthy is that a striking coincidence has made it a cleverer trick than they could have known. For the book is a rather silly story about a governess and two haunted children. I am afraid that in it Mr. James exposes the extent of his ignorance. He knows little about children and nothing at all about governesses

All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

A story so cherished it had to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Miss Lea, it does not do to get attached to these secondary characters It's not their story. They come, they go, and when they go they're gone for good. That's all there is to it.

It's what my mother would say. She thinks a weightless story is better than one that's too heavy." "So. My story is a heavy one.

The storyteller gave me a sideways look. Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They come and go, and when they're gone, they're gone for good. That is all there is to it.

No conviene encariñarse con los personajes secundarios. No es su historia. Vienen, se van, y una vez que se han ido ya no vuelven. Eso es todo.

My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.

Six months ago a miraculous story had burst wildly and messily into the Swan; today it was neatened, pressed, and put away without a crease in it.

In this case, the story that we had accepted, like suckers, was the idea that fascism and Nazism are inherently "right wing.

The difference between a story and an essay is that the storyteller just wants to entertain the reader, while the essayist has been to graduate school.

It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

This is not a story about your disappointment at my silence. The theme of this story is my pain and my attempts to end it.

A sunset is the story of the world's day.

Catastrophe is our bedtime story.

Le trame possiedono una logica. C'è una tendenza, nelle trame, a evolvere in direzione della morte.

My name is Viverrine Gentian. Who are you?" "You said you knew." "And so I do," she said. "I was simply wondering if we agreed." "What's that book?" "It's a story called Somnium. A beautiful and extremely rare book. Written in Latin with a smidgen of Hebrew and Greek.

Popular Mechanics, Iowa

If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?

Ne svi?a li nam se vlastita pri?a, možemo je promijeniti. Jer mi smo, na kraju krajeva, njezini autori.

One thing I've learned about the press is that they're always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better. It's in the nature of the job, and I understand that. The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous