Stories Quotes - Page 27

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

A story about my life would be utterly dull.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Although I’ve played a wide variety of roles, I’ve never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It’s a pity as they are the only stories that really let you reveal your personality.

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

The biggest threat to your creativity is the fear that it's already been done, said, created. (So why bother?) Say it, do it, make it anyway - but tell YOUR story along the way. The story of how you came to know what you know. The story of what you want to know more of. The story of why you do what you do. The story of how you came to care. And that's how you create what's never been created before.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

A woman tells a story with her clothes, but it's the shoe that carries her.

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

You are the effect of your story, that's all.

Your ultimate life experience and legacy is being built moment by moment, day by day. Your story is being crafted by your every action, all leading somewhere, all leading to what one hopes will be a magnificent crescendo.

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

Every person you see has stories, and every person you see has a few that would break your heart. We deserve each other's respect simply because we've survived all we have and kept going anyway.