Quotes About Story

Ocupada en darles nombre, se le ha escapado su historia.

The shattered wall, the broken tower have a story to tell - from the touchstones of ruins and ancient texts we make a pilgrimage. from The Ruins

What is the heart of the story? What's the hook? What's the setting? What is the primary action that drives the story? What is the emotional core? What are the external conflicts (the world is coming to an end!) What are the internal conflicts (torn between two lovers) What is the driving emotional force? (revenge, love) Will they succeed? (introduce doubt)

Try not to mention more than three or four characters unless they're vital to the story. If you can't hook them with four characters you won't be able to do it with five or six.

With truth like a fairy tale and the way it unwinds, We've our entire lives to 'make-up' our minds.

The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

He couldn't decided whether it bothered him most to think the sailors' tale might be true or to think it was spacious in every detail and passed around as God's word regardless. The death of a horse if the life of a crow and a story was a rank scavenger from all he could tell, feeding on rumour and innuendo and naked confabulation where the truth was too nimble to chase down or too tough to chew.

This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit and now we have to help these victims, ... That's all I've wanted to do.

Individual destiny is not produced machine-like from the "mills of the gods". Nor are we characters in a morality play. We are works of art, each work distinct, each a phenomenon, the art laboring hand in hand with the Artist to create the story. We are inside a poem. No, we are the poem.

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

I think it is significant that it is the younger churches with no pretensions to western `sophistication' who look at the Acts, learn from it, and go out in the power of the same Lord expecting him to do equally mighty things through them. That is happening in Latin America, much of Asia, and a great deal of Africa. The Christians in these regions seem to have a facility we have lost for reading the story, learning from it, and applying it.

Her name has been released to the press. Her photograph is released, too. I want to talk to the press about it. I don't want Andi to be a one-day story. I don't want her to be just a headline on the wires.

Empathy is something you must create when the hero is introduced. Making your hero a victim in the middle of the movie or showing him becoming kind and loving may make your story richer, but it doesn't create empathy and identification.

Somewhere on the periphery of that total Vietnam issue whose daily reports made the morning paper too heavy to bear, lost in the surreal contexts of television, there was a story that was as simple as it had always been, men hunting men, a hideous war and all kinds of victims.

ESPN and every other media outlet in the country, and world, had a statement from the Patriots and an apology from the Herald Reporter John Tomase, who wrote the errant story about the Rams walk-through, apologized in print and on television. Yet Spygate, not even a year old, was embedded in the culture. There was no delineation between what the Patriots actually did, what they were accused of doing, and what analysts and writers imagined they could be doing.

Na podstawie tego niepeÅ'nego zbioru pomiarów mo?na uÅ'o?y? historiÄ™ logicznie spójnÄ…, o której nie da siÄ™ jednak powiedzie?, ?e jest prawdziwa; jest tylko niesprzeczna.

We are between stories now. We are evolving from the world dominated by technology and entering the age of biology when there will be a resurgence of interest in learning how to work with the forces of nature rather than against them. It will be a time for following what feels most natural, organic and heartfelt. And it is a time for understanding that we do not enter the world; we grow out of it. The seeds of our own unfolding future lie deep within ourselves.

Set within the seed of the soul is not jut a fleeting image or a vague pattern but a lifelong story enfolded within, waiting to be cracked open and lived all the way out.

There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us.

The issue is not simply one of needing to save the world, but also of needing to solve the problem of the loss of soul throughout the modern world. Part of what has been lost in the reckless rushing of modernity is the sense that each life has an authentic interior that shelters important emotions as well as inherent purpose, and that the dignity of existence includes a necessary instinct to unfold the unique story woven inside each living soul.

The home we are looking for in this world is within us all along. The lost home that we are seeking is ourselves; it is the story we carry within our soul.

Myths are intended to break the spell of time and release us from the immediate pressures and limitations of daily life.

A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born.

When we place our immediate conflicts in the territory of an archetypal story we can better see the nature of our problems and find solutions that bring creative imagination to bear in the realm of hard facts and hardening dilemmas.