Quotes About Story

Truth has its place. In a courtroom, certainly. A boardroom? I don't know. I think truth is in the listener. Truth is something the listener bestows on a story-- or not

Remember that your life is a story. Why not write your own ending-and then make it happen.

Lost When my exit came, I left the highway and soon locked the front door behind me as I breathed in the familiar scent of home. I knew I would have a scary story for my parents in the morning, and I knew a cell phone would soon be coming my way. And I will always wonder…Did I see an angel? -Jenny Snow

compared Voldemort to a character from Chitty

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but when I told that story around the campfire, nobody got scared.

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to live out

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

For maximum effectiveness, you should start your story at the time of the change that threatens your major character's self-concept.

You will determine what this change will be in your story by thinking about your main character in considerable depth. Having done so, you will then write down his self-concept in a maximum of ten or fifteen words.

invariably the character with the strongest, clearest goal motivation going in. To say this a different way: The goal that starts a scene ordinarily should be stated by the story person who is to be the viewpoint character in that scene. And once this viewpoint has been established, you will be wise to stay in that viewpoint at least through the disaster ending the scene.

5. Disaster works (moves the story forward) by seeming to move the central Figure further back from his goal, leaving him in worse trouble than he was before the scene started. It may seem paradoxical to beginning novelists that scenes work best when they move the lead character further from his story goal – that the best narrative progress often appears to be backwards.

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

Philip Youngman, curator of mammals at the National Museum of Canada, spoke for many. "It is just too much to buy the story that sheer coincidence caused two grizzly bears only twenty miles apart to attack two similar camping parties at almost the same time

the protagonist-complication-resolution model for story. You see it in various forms. Philip Gerard, who writes both novels and book-length narrative nonfiction, says a story follows when "a character we care about acts to fulfill his desires with important consequences.

Even the little bit that must be known will block easy entry to the story if it delays the action line. The secret, Hunter Thompson said, is to "blend, blend, blend." You launch action immediately and then blend the exposition into it, submerging it in modifiers, subordinate clauses, appositives, and the like.

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And most times she follows them, because once she saw one, curving the air with its silvered colours when she walked in the rain, in the night, in search of a dream she had thought lost, a story she needed, to be complete.

breaking news (n) a news story that is unfolding at the moment that reporters are reporting it

Back then, we still all believed in happy endings. None of us knew yet how many endings and beginnings one story could have.

May, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. (233) Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen. (278)

As we dance, I am not Melody, I am a narrative, someone's almost forgotten story. Remembered.

Mereu sfârÈ™im prin a deveni un personaj în propria noastr? poveste.

Pero Tito, ¿qué esperabas? -respingó mi tío- ¿qué se casaran y tuvieran muchos hijitos? Es una historia de horror, de eso se trata. Los finales felices son un invento del cine, están pensados para que los espectadores coman más palomitas .

Once upon a time it was now.