Stories Quotes - Page 11

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.

Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.

The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

All you really have in the end are your stories.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.

If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.