Quotes about story

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“He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.”

“I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.”

“Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.”

“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”

“Our stories are so fundamental to us that it’s easy to forget that we choose them.”

“Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.”

“Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it.”

“Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.”

“The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it according to his inner self. The words go to the ear, but the true message travels straight to the spirit.”

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”

“ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ
ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story…ʺ”

“Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.”

“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”

“We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass.”

“I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.”

“I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.”

“Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.”

“But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.”

“I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?”

“Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.”

“Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility…. Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.”

“That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.”

“A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain”

“It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.”

“Our story is over, though in its end lies its beginning.”

“Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.”

“… I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread…”

“They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.”

“Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.”

“It was one of those and so they died/the end stories, that made us demigods feels all warm and fuzzy inside.-Percy”

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”

“I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.”

“The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.”

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories.”

“we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.”

“Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.”

“I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.”

“Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different
story.”

“Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write, write. If you can't find the makings of a story inside yourself, you won't find them anywhere.”

“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.”

“A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.”

“So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.”

“My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?”

“But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story…”

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”

“Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story”

“And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.”

“Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.”

“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”

“Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.”

“You will die a worse death if you do not leave my domain,” a voice thundered down from the third story of the old tenement. “I am a servant of the Sacred Fire, the wielder of the flame of Arnor—”
“So I should call you Gandalf?”

“All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.”

“Some stories are true that never happened.”

“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.”

“I will tell you something about stories… They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.”

“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.”

“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”

“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.”

“The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.”

“Holy crap! Your story was so long I forgot the beginning! - Ichigo Kurosaki”

“Maybe stories are just data with a soul.”

“The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?”

“It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.”

“Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?”

“Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.”

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.”

“I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.”

“My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.”

“Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.”

“People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel”

“Me, I’m late to meet my girlfriend. Annabeth is going to kill me.
Hope you enjoyed the stories. Stay safe out there, demigods.
Peace from Manhattan,
Percy Jackson”

“Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.”

“The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own—not with ink, but with our daily choices.”

“This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”

“You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.”

“There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.”

“It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.”

“Hazel blinked. “Two gods had a horse for a kid?”
“Long story.”

“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”

“There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.”

“Monsters are eternal,” she told him, trying to keep herself from sobbing. “We will remember you and Damasen as heroes, as the best Titan and the best giant. We'll tell our children. We'll keep the story alive. Someday, you will regenerate.”

“To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line…. That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.”

“Calvin: I'd hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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“Everybody has their story to tell.”

“So yo then man what's your story?”

“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”

“You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.”

“Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.”

“Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?”

“I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.”

“You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.”

“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.”

“And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another. Macedonians. Sassanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.”

“As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”

“My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.”

“I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected.
"Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant."
"Ouch."
"Though very courageous."
"Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow.”

“All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.”

“At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.”