Quotes of: Life-story Keyword

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

Chronicles of Urban Nomads

Sean was young, vibrant, capable. Life hadn't even begun to digest his hope.

Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores

'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environment. That's what a lot of people relate to in the story.

Ben Browder

... the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney.

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Maximilian Schell

We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks...

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Life is a love story, with every character yearning for permanent refuge in someone's heart.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Fran Lebowitz

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.

Lorrie Moore

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you ...

First Among Sequels

I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels a...

Richard Flanagan

We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us ...

Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months

Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.

Witches Abroad

The stories in this book link an ancient story with the children's stories. Rather than medical case reports based on certainty of what scientists currently understand, they are simply an attempt to be faithful to what I have heard. In this sense, th...

Diane M. Komp - Pediatric Oncologist

What you give away in life always comes back to you in one way or other.

Glimpses of Heaven: True Stories of Hope and Peace at the End of Life's Journey

No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

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

I woke up to singing and found myself singing too

90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

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

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores