Stories Quotes - Page 14

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

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.

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.

I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude