Story Quotes - Page 4

Then there are the optimists. The story continues, but it stays the same. The princess lives happily ever after with her prince, probably pops out a few kids and carries on the bloodline. Marriages survive, families continue, and good prevails over evil. These are the people who cannot bear deviations from the rule. Everything fits into neat little boxes. When bad things happen, they ignore it, or use some quote about everything happening for a reason, or what doesn't kill us make us stronger. They carry on without even talking about their bad experiences, pretending everything is all right.
Sarah Dalton
Somehow, the story of the book enhanced the story within it.
Barbara Lieberman
A recipe is a story with a happy ending.
Daniel Thompson
It’s a question of wanting to know how the story turns out. And one can only know that about one story, ever.
Caleb Crain
As Kipling said, that’s another story...
Harper Lee
All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story.
Bryan Fuller
A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story
Thomas Wright
Nanabozho also had the task to learn how to live from his elder brothers and sisters. When he needed food, he noticed what the animals were eating and copied them. Heron taught him to gather wild rice. One night by the creek, he saw a little ring-tailed animal carefully washing his food with delicate hands. He thought, “Ahh, I am supposed to put only clean food in my body.”Nanabozho was counseled by many plants too, who shared gifts, and learned to treat them always with the greatest respect. After all, plants were here first on the earth and have had a long time to figure things out. Together, all the beings, both plants and animals, taught him what he needed to know. The Creator had told him it would be this way.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.
Jennifer Harrison
As far as I’m concerned, story is everything. It is why we get up in the morning and how we choose who to take to bed at night. Story is the thread that weaves together the very fabric of reality.
J.K. Norry
A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.
Johnny Rich
As a screenwriter - if you are completely honest with yourself - you can’t help but admit that your greatest threat is the audience, where audience is not understood as a demographic category but as a character outside the script to whom the story is addressed. A good part of the drama necessary for uncovering the story resides in the conflict between the storyteller and his/her audience. Audience plays the part of antagonist to the writer’s role as protagonist. The writer drives the action, which is forever complicated, frustrated and undermined by the audience’s needs and sensibilities. Audience wants you to prove it. Audience has a chip on its shoulder, and doesn’t give a damn. Audience has been there and done that in the guise of your mother, your father, your ex-, your worst enemy. Audience laughs at your stupidity and dares you to change its view of you and the story world that you would have it care about. Audience is defiant. It has your number. The only way you can defeat it is by carrying a bigger stick - your only defence is an inspired offence, namely the story.
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
We are Living in the Last Chapters of Life... Find Your Purpose and make it the Best Story possible.
Randa Manning-Johnson
A story knows its way.
Renata Bowers
In Middle Earth a motley crew assembles to save the world as we know it. Four hobbits, two men, a dwaft, an elf, and a wizard, too. They rambled to destroy the ring in the mountains of Mordor. Now it is you time. Dare you join this fellowship? The rules are simple. Twelve more clues will be hidden. One for each month. You have a month to solve each riddle. Plenty of time. On the full moon of each month, the next clue will be hidden. Seek it. Leave each where you found it for the next traveler. Where does this quest lead? What is the endgame? Follow and you shall find out. You must be wise, learned, disciplined, and above all, not a FROG. If you agree to join this fellowship, proceed with your first clue: MY WORDS are legend. Legends are HISTORY, My field of study.ONE BOOK only in your shire. With your strength, the book has been found, and now you must climb to the Scholar's Shrine. Four travelers begin this talle: Hlaf Elf, Troll, Halfling, and Thief. To make it to the end, you will need to build a motley crew. Find a wizard to see you through. You walk a long and winding path to find your next clue. Shall the Half Elf teache you his songs to pass the time? Perhaps that will draw an elf lord into your presence. The road is long, and the leaves do change color. You have demonstrated your strength, and your intelligence: now you must go boldly into battle. Be wise with your strategy: though it my seem like a game, there is more to the story.
Megan Frazer Blakemore
Look, the truth belongs to the guy who's best at sticking to his story,' said Ferguson.
Helen Simonson
Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )
Erik Pevernagie
The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.
John Capecci and Timothy Cage
You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.
Angelica Banks
It’s the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don’t you?
Larry Kramer
Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story.
Sunday Adelaja
Who lives inside your head? The hero of your story OR The victim of someone else's?
Tony Curl
The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . .
Christina Baldwin
If the institution of mathematics told a story . . . how would it end?
Lindsey Drager
This is a love story. It’s about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.
Jonathan Galassi
Here is a story in the worst way. I have no business being anywhere in it. It comes between me and the life I have coming.
Gary Lutz
Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.
James Purdy
An inclusive narrative structure provides the executive brain with the best template and strategy for the oversight and coordination of the functions of mind. A story well told, containing conflicts and resolutions, gestures and expressions, and thoughts flavored with emotion, connects people ad integrates neural networks
Louis Cozolino
The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It’s where we meet the strong or subtle cultural censors who attempt to define what community, race, class, or gender can or cannot speak, to tell us which stories are told and valued and which are not. In short, it’s where we’re reminded of the power of personal stories and the power of the storyteller.
John Capecci and Timothy Cage
Too many film schools, as well as any number of screenwriting gurus and an obscene number of how-to-write tomes, have made a business of catering to fledgling screenwriters and filmmakers by exploiting their belief that the only thing standing between them and an Oscar is the right kind of knowledge. If only one knew enough, one could easily become rich and famous. Unfortunately, almost all are susceptible to that eternal malady – “that last great infirmity of the soul” – which is FAME. And whilst I don’t deny the value of technical knowledge, such knowledge matters very little if the story one is trying to tell doesn’t matter, either because it’s incoherent or simply because it fails to make us care.
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
The old adage that ‘there are two sides to every story’ is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.
Kenneth Eade
I know that story, when you start a fight, the main idea is one to survive, one to be the victim and one to be the killer. This explains why FBI, CSI and DIA and other departments are here!
Deyth Banger
(Topper) I’ll story ’em, Fin. I’ll story ’em clean.
A.S. Peterson
Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.
John Connolly
So, at the last, a story.
Justin Cronin
Behind every great hatred is a love story.
Justin Cronin
Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.
Meg Wolitzer
When you know how, it's a pleasure to burn.
Saahil Prem
She walks into my life legs first, a long drink of water in the desert of my thirties. Her shoes are red; her eyes are green. She's an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris. She mixes my metaphors like a martini and serves up my heart tartare. They all do. Every time. They have to. It's that kind of story.
Catherynne M. Valente
Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists.
John Mark Green
what's real within the story is real within the story
Jo Walton
When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story.
Shawn Lukas
The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.
Rick Moody
Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters.
Assegid Habtewold
Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you.
Assegid Habtewold
Don’t judge me. You’re not living my life and you know nothing about my battles. You have not the faintest idea of how I manage to smile in the middle of storms or how I transform my despair into delight. You have not the faintest idea of what I have gone through and why I am who I am today. This is my life and only I know the real story. The strains, the struggles, the sorrows are all mine. They’re not for you to assess or evaluate; I give that authority to none, for My Guiding Light is Within. - Manprit Kaur
Manprit Kaur
When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell.
Richelle E. Goodrich
You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ....
Robert McKee
All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.
Lailah Gifty Akita
When will you be brave enough to recognize your success story?
andrea T Goeglein
I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing's luckier than that.
Jennifer Donnelly
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
David Byrne
Tell, tell more sounds interesting and little familiar...
Deyth Banger
Off Fuck off... the same story over and over and again and again.. I don't want it!
Deyth Banger
Dubstep makes me feel confused and my headache get fixed, from chillstep I get sad - That's my story!
Deyth Banger
My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all.
Yann Martel
For the one who writes it . . . a story is like a mirror.
Sylvia Iparraguirre
IF I can do it and you can do it, if I have a story and you have story.
Deyth Banger
Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Don't envy my smile because it took me a lot of tears to get it. So when you see the glory, ask for the story.
Olawale Daniel

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