Quotes of: Life-story Keyword

I have done a pretty good job of partitioning my life digitally, posting utterances and stories that I'm happy to share with anyone on Twitter, leaving a few sparse comments and 'Likes' on Facebook (I'm not a huge user of the service, I'll be honest)...

John Battelle

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming an...

Greg Bear

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I...

Helen Hunt

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, some...

Charles de Lint

God is the Master Author of your life. He has written every page of your life story in His eternal book. It's up to you to turn up the pages and move on with the next chapter or just get yourself stuck in the same content over and over again."- Eliza...

Elizabeth E. Castillo

The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.

Eastern Standard Tribe

I whispered, under my breath, an atheist’s prayer... whatever the hell that is.

A Schizophrenic Will: A Story of Madness, A Story of Hope

People love stories. They need stories.

Caroline Leavitt

I feel very strongly that every artist has one central story to tell. The struggle is to tell and retell that story over and over again, visual form, and try to challenge that story. But at the core that story remains the same. It's like the defining...

Gregory Crewdson

Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That’s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the futu...

The Things They Carried

The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is the story. See? Sometimes this is very hard to accept and sometimes too easy. On the one hand,...

Thomas Ligotti

Tomorrow’s sun is on it’s way – a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.

The Devil's Church and Other Stories

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

Etchings

Our story begins at home, but it doesn’t have to end there.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.

Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story

Lies: A novel

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.

Nema Al-Araby

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Eudora Welty

I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.

Mark Harmon

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

Jill Clayburgh

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.

Simon Callow