Quotes About Story

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.

A history lesson disguised as a story,

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer today--all the shifts in the business, all the drama, all the debating about where publishing is going--and write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success.

Like Edison, you are an inventor; like Fritjof Nansen, an explorer; like Emerson, a philosopher; like Steve Martin, an entertainer; like Lincoln, a statesman; like Wilberforce, a patient liberator. You are all these things and more—and the fabric of the tapestry upon which you're assembling this story is made up of tiny threads that few will ever notice as you weave them.

Story mapping keeps us focused on users and their experience, and the result is a better conversation, and ultimately a better product.

It did not care about your belief system, your grasp on reality, the excellence of your analysis or your senses, for the anti-story of the story-creature became story by retelling effortlessly what lived at the core of you.

And so I wept my story into the ocean and the ocean received it.

A face, he believes, is a piece of sculpture that has taken a lifetime to mold, so it tells more than any actor's technique possibly could. I've watched Fellini work, and he did

There is an old Jewish story, an ordinary Jewish joke. A father was teaching his little son to be less afraid and have more courage. "Jump," he said, "and I will catch you." And the little boy trusted him and the little boy jumped. And when his father caught him he felt filled with love. And when he didn't, he was filled with something else…something more. Life. (From the movie 'Then She Found Me.')

A living parable

Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

At some point I had stopped being in love with him and had fallen in love with the story of him and me instead.

We were too distracted by our own story to pay much attention to all the wonders that were laid before us.

Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an epilogue, and after that you're inclined to go on wondering about the characters or imagining that their lives continue without you, dear reader. Until you forget most of that book, you're stuck puzzling over what happened to them after you closed it.

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

So now you have it. The plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot.

You will have only one story," she had said. "You'll write your one story many ways. Don't ever worry about story. You have only one.

These are hard memories, and I will save the rest of the story for another time.

Sometimes we look at outcomes in this life, seeking the reassurance of a happy ending, and it's just not there. What then? As Betty put it, His ways are inscrutable. So we have to rest, not in the peace of a pretty story, but in the reality of faith in a Person we cannot see.

What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.

The splendor falls on castle wallsAnd snowy summits old in story:The long light shakes across the lakes,And the wild cataract leaps in glory.Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

There's always, there'll always be, more story. That's what story is...It's the never-ending leaf-fall.