Quotes About Story

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

I wish I could write well enough to write that story, he thought. What we did. Not what the others did to us.

It was a pleasant café, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old waterproof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a café au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write. I was writing about up in Michigan and since it was a wild, cold, blowing day it was that sort of day in the story.

It is a curious fact of literary history that a story which describes the loss of a gigantic prize provided the author with the greatest prize of his career. —

Show irony and pity.

He was the archivist, and all the archives of the town were in his office. That has nothing to do with the story. Anyway

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel

She is his selection, part time. You know the story too! Look, When it is over he places her, Like a phone, back on the hook. —Anne Sexton, "You All Know the Story of the Other Woman

The human animal is remarkably adept at seeing itself as the hero, no matter what the story.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Human life is fiction's only theme.

It is indeed The Story, and our task is to tell it, to form it, to fashion it—not to "organize" it.

In God, the life of the flesh became the story of the spirit. I loved that story, no matter what.

And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

often finds a more interesting story behind the conventional one. Martin Luther's supposedly revolutionary resistance to indulgences took place in a German state where they were sold. Even more intriguing, they weren't sold because the ruling authorities there get a brisk business in holy relics – which Luther left alone.

While the story is unique to Intel, the lessons, I believe, are universal

I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

A story is a largely false account of largely trivial events, fed to us by historians who are largely idiots.

De nombreux journaux avaient relaté dans leurs colonnes l'aventure incroyable qui était arrivée à M. Malcolm Guthrie de Braemore ; même le Daily Mail londonien y avait consacré quelques lignes dans sa rubrique "Curiosités".

A story is a largely false account, of largely trivial events, fed to us by historians who are largely idiots,'" smiled the Witcher.

A my nie byli?my dla nich wcale zwiastunami zmian, z t? bezcelow? wypraw?, blad? skór?, z butami Salomona, aparatami Pentaxa, z tym kompletnym brakiem uzasadnienia dla w?asnej tutaj obecno?ci, z ca?ym tym kaprysem. Przyj?li nas tak, jakby?my byli dzie?mi tej samej przestrzeni, mieszka?cami tej samej opowie?ci, która trwa od niepami?tnych czasów.

If you want one last picture of authority and vulnerability together, laughter will do the trick. To laugh, to really laugh out loud, is to be vulnerable, taken beyond ourselves, overcome by surprise and gratitude. And to really laugh may be the last, best kind of authority—the capacity to see the meaning of the whole story and discover that our final act, our only enduring responsibility in that story, is simply celebration, delight and worship.

If there is a constructive way forward for Christians in the midst of our broken but also beautiful cultures, it will require us to recover these two biblical postures of cultivation and creation. And that recovery will involve revisiting the biblical story itself, where we discover that God is more intimately and eternally concerned with culture than we have yet come to believe.