Stories Quotes
Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well.
Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.
I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story.
You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.
I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.
I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.
The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.
This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.
I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.
The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.
Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
