Quotes About Story

God is writing His story on the pages of our lives.

Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.

I wanted to know the denouement of your life story. I have no interest in the narrative.

Everything in life is a story just waiting to be written.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book." "If you know how it ends, why read the book?" "I don't read for the ending. I read for the story".

Fiecare no?iune, fiecare familie, fiecare individ are o mitologie care d? culoare existen?ei sale.

Istoria nu are niciodat? sfâr?it.

But there was one thing he actually did believe in that bordered on the magical, or at least the beyond-pedestrian, and that was the duty a writer owed to a story.

All ghost stories come to this, she understood. All ghost stories end in one of these two ways: You are dead or I am dead. If people only understood this, Portia thought, they would never be frightened, they would only need to ask themselves, Who among us has died? And then it occurred to her that she was the ghost in her story. She had spent years haunting her own life, without ever noticing.

I just care about the story. Either it's a good plot or it isn't. And if it's not a good plot, the best writing isn't going to help. And if it is, the worst writing isn't going to hurt it.

It is the size of the characters' desires that helps to make a sad story a tragedy.

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

You may find a myth that will evoke the reality in you

I have always thought of a myth as something that never was, but is always happening

Don't you think it would be interesting if you could read the story of your life - written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author?

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

Don't you think it would be interesting if you really could read the story of your life - written perfectly and truthfully by an omniscient author? ... how many could suppress their curiosity sufficiently to escape from reading it, even at the price of having to live without hope and without surprise?

They were working hard at their own myth.

Movies endorsed unwanted ideas by putting them into story form and resolving them up there on the screen. The goal was, as always, identification, but also relief.