Stories Quotes
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.
I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.
Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.
It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.
Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well
The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel
I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.
Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.
More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.
Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.
Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.
A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.
The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.
One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.
I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.
I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.
For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.
The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.