All of life, Orhan realizes, is a story within a story; how we choose to listen and which words we choose to speak makes all the difference.
I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.
A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
I've learned there is a void in adult stories across the land. Hollywood, whatever that is anymore, is losing their ability to tell those stories because they're not even thinking of that audience.
Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come.
Time can be cruel if you don’t use it wisely ~ Imani Wisdom, Zion's Road: A Love Story about Faith and Redemption.
Moral stories are always imaginary , but these stories induce real moral values in a human society .
A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.
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.
don't read the success stories you will get message but read the failure stories you will get the ideas become successful
[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories -- entering into their feelings, validating their experiences -- is the highest way of acknowledging their hu...
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.
I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.
I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.
I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Nothing ages more than a good deed.
Better a good conscience without wisdom than wisdom without a good conscience.
I hate a jovial table companion with a good memory.
