Quotes About Story

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.

I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That brought me experience and it will help me a lot to gain the desired world title.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Not a stone but has its history.

The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

History is no more than memories refreshed.

History is His story.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.