Quotes About Story

a story that must be told never forgives silence

To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must "recollect" ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.

He loves to tell that old story of the don who was granted an interview with Napoleon. "No doubt a remarkable fellow," said the don afterwards, "but anyone can see he's not a Cambridge man.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story

Or maybe it's not about right and wrong at all but simply a humorous story suggesting that in our daily lives the people of this world abuse one another, punish one another, praise one another, and serve one another all on the basis of feelings—their likes and dislikes.

Ada sebuah kisah tentang bagaimana pada suatu pagi musim semi ketika matahari cerah menyinari dedahanan prem di mana dua atau tiga kembang mekar terdapat seorang pelajar Heidelberg bergelantungan di sana, mati.

In any case, a completely invincible hero just isn't good story material.

A name with a catchy story attached makes you less of a business, and more of a character in a story.

We are all one, because we're all part of the same evolutionary story.

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatomists. The text of such a memoir may soon lose its interest, and belong to the past, but good figures are of permanent value. [Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs.]

Das Fräulein Scuderi? Bei meiner Seele! In diesem Wort weht 'was von ihrem Atem. Und kommt's von ihr, dann hat dies kleine Lied Eine Geschichte, die mich intressiert.

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

as long as we are living, there is always time to expand the story.

A photograph tells the story of two lives simultaneously, the one in front of the camera as well as the one behind.

truth cannot "be reduced to aphorism or formulas. It is something alive and unpronounceable. Story creates an atmosphere in which [truth] becomes discernible as a pattern."3

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

I thought it was a really good story,' Cindy said. She was trying to make me feel better, I think. 'I liked the way it ended. When I was halfway through, I was thinking that maybe some handsome prince was going to show up and save the princess.' 'She didn't need a handsome prince,' I said. 'Those wild girls did just fine on their own.

Pat's take on « Organic Writing » : « I don't make an outline before writing a book, the subconscious formulates the story. You can't stop it – it just happens. I never know what I'll end up with. I begin researching the subject and writing at the same time. My subconscious is telling me a story, so I'm being entertained. I don't know what's going to happen." Quote from 1997

What I like to do is write the story, see where it takes me -- and then check out the details I don't know. When I first started writing, there were a lot of things about the world that I understood but didn't have the vocabulary for -- and even more things that I just had no idea about. For instance, do you know all the parts of a door frame? Or what flowers bloom in the spring in alpine climates? There's a surprising amount of homework involved in writing a book.

I was raised in the backwoods of Montana. I can hit a duck on the wing." Maybe. Probably. I'd never shot a duck in my life; I prefer hunting on all fours. "Where I come from, a gun is a weapon, not a TV prop, and if all the bad guys are dead, our side of the story is the only one that gets told.

Remember the story of Beauty and the Beast?" remarked Asil gently. "Go ahead. Take that little bloom. See what happens." "'Beauty and the Beast' is a French fairy tale and you are a mere Spaniard