Quotes of: Good-story Keyword

From the standpoint of what eternity is it better to have read a thousand books than to have ploughed a million furrows?

Collected Short Stories: Volume 1

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)

Collected Stories, Vol. 1

Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action mov...

Donnie Yen

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation.

Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

Against All Odds: A Story Of Courage, Perseverance And Hope

He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.

Atlantis and Other Places: Stories of Alternate History

Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.

Adventurers Against Their Will: Extraordinary World War II Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection-Unlike Any Others

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

The rule in life is like with tennis: One point won't lose you the match, but if you let it get to you, it will.

Hank Butterfield: The Story of a Tennis Star

When you have a steady and lifelong group of girlfriends, chances are the person you're telling the story to is actually part of the story.

I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Inkspell

They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.

I'll Give You the Sun

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

Impromptu Scribe

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.

The Red Notebook: True Stories