Quotes About Story

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?"Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

Son of a—Rora?" Blake slid out of the crater he'd just made in the wall. "Crap. What are you doing here?" He saw my wrist. "Handcuffs? I definitely want that story.

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you're telling the story of a future

When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story.

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

We all have ghosts, remorse, dreams, things we love and hate. One day something in life - a word, a phrase, something in a book, a beautiful woman - clicks, and part of that world takes on a special meaning. And you realize you have a story to tell.

Your eyes have a story to tell. They speak to me about a person who has searched for love and has beauty within. I think your eyes are the reason why I fell in love with you.

A kiss is a love story distilled into a single moment.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again.

I'm a master of story. Almost a living fiction myself, so resilient am I! Spider-Man beats me down, I rise! Daredevil imprisons me, I escape! That's because stories have power! He who controls the narrative controls the audience, and you're all the audience, every one of you. As they say, the world's a stage...

Our emotional reactions depend on the story we tell ourselves, the running commentary in the mind that interprets the data we receive through our senses.

We map our world in story. The world falls apart. We map a new world. Again and again we story our lives in order to situate ourselves: I am here, not there. I am here and long to go there. Once found, new possibilities emerge. Curiosity rises within us. We feel the pull to discover new countries, traverse new oceans.

I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.

It reminded me to never take the story of any god or spirit or magical being to be all true. If the gods created everything, was truth not just another creation?

Stop talking about truth - I fed you truth all along, but as I said before, what you want is story.

Our life isn't a story that we read. It's a story that we write as we live it, one page at a time.

But I wouldn't mind if You included a Prince Charles in my story. Charming!" Millie shook her head. "I meant Prince Charming. Really, Lord. Time to pray about something else...

You can't really change the heart without telling a story.

It's not going to make a very good story, in the annals of my time as sister queen." She quoted dryly, "'Then her consort jumped up and knocked the foreign queen unconscious with a kettle.

The compressed video clip in the packet was from the serial World Hoppers, from a story arc climax episode, when a secondary main character's mind had been taken over by a sentient brain-virus (I know) and the story was really much better than it sounds but it was the moment when the character said, I am trapped in my own body.