Story Quotes
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.
There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.
Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.
All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.
The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!
We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls.
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.
A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.
Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.
Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.
An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.
My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.
The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.
