Story Quotes - Page 17

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.

Julio Cortázar

An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing as a kind of exorcism, casting off invading creatures by projecting them into universal existence, keeping them on the other side of the bridge… It may be exaggerating to say that all completely successful short stories, especially fantastic stories, are products of neurosis, nightmares or hallucination neutralized through objectification and translated to a medium outside the neurotic terrain. This polarization can be found in any memorable short story, as if the author, wanting to rid himself of his creature as soon and as absolutely as possible, exorcises it the only way he can: by writing it.

Julio Cortázar

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.

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.

Horacio Quiroga

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]

Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

Forgiveness and faith are like writing a story, they take time, effort, revisions.

Daisy Hernandez

Sometimes we are fixed on an image of Christ in a stable born, but he is not there anymore. Sometimes we are fixed on an image of Christ on a cross dying, but he is not there anymore. Sometimes we are fixed on an image of Christ at an empty tomb, but he is not there anymore. He has ascended and is seated at the right hand of God and is coming again! All parts of the story are important, but this final part is often over looked. Let's not get stuck in a spiritual moment, but make progress instead. Look to Him as He is.

David Holdsworth

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

Eugene H. Peterson

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

No one could say the stories were uselessfor as the tongue clackedfive or forty fingers stitchedcorn was grated from the huskpathwork was piecedor the darning was done...(from 'The Storyteller Poems')

... so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the act of doing it.Not what it can lead to.This is for the times I lose myself while writing, singing, playingand no one is around and they will never knowbut I will forever rememberand that shines brighter than any praise or fame or glory I will ever have,and this is for you who write or play or read or singby yourself with the light off and door closedwhen the world is asleep and the stars are alignedand maybe no one will ever hear itor read your wordsor know your thoughtsbut it doesn’t make it less glorious.It makes it ethereal. Mysterious.Infinite.For it belongs to you and whatever God or spirit you believe inand only you can decide how much it meantand meansand will forever meanand other people will experience it toothrough you.Through your spirit. Through the way you talk.Through the way you walk and love and laugh and careand I never meant to write this longbut what I want to say is:Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.So go create. Take photographs in the wood, run alone in the rain and sing your heart out high up on a mountainwhere no one will ever hearand your very existence will be the most hypnotising scar.Make your life be your artand you will never be forgotten.

Charlotte Eriksson

You are never too old to become younger!

Mae West

Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

Simplicity saves strength.

Action achieves ambition.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection.

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.

For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,

If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.

During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

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