Quotes of: Real-story Keyword

When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a story about her. This usually worked; and if her name was to be in the title of the story, it almost always worked. Then, later, when ...

Roman Payne

My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a...

Neil Gaiman

A mistake is the name we give to any action in which we perceive a difference between what we intended and what has occurred. Intention fuels every dramatic action, including the writing of dramatic stories, which involves a series of dramatic action...

Billy Marshall Stoneking

I am a storyteller. The type that went from place to place, gathered people in the square and transported them, inspired them, woke them up, shook their insides around so that they could resettle in a new pattern, a new way of being. It is a traditio...

Love

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers...of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few...

The Closing of the American Mind

Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the “irresponsibility” of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when compared to life, because it is first and foremost important that a character be real, and a...

The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel

I say, "Well then I don't know if it was real, and that makes me feel like I'm going insane again." "Absolutely it was real. It was a real, partial picture. Because it ended preemptively, things you would have learned about him in the relationship, y...

Your Voice in My Head

I'm of the opinion that many Christians are in deep denial about the reality of there being 'real' Evil in this world. Evil that cannot be reasoned with; is reprobate, incorrigible, determined, un-appeasable, violent, murderous, and unrelenting. I fi...

R. Alan Woods

In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literature. As I understand it, the adjective implies, a little condescendingly, that the life therein depicted cannot be identified with the real life wh...

A.A. Milne

If you want to know how the true story goes, wait till the arguments start.

African

Really, Sage? A date?" I sighed. "Yes, Adrian. A date." A real date. Not, like, doing homework together," he added. "I mean like where you go out to a movie or something. And a movie that's not part of a school assignment. Or about something boring."...

The Golden Lily

Let me tell you about gods," said Wiggin. "No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always somebody smarter or stronger, and when you run into somebody who's stronger and smarter than anybody, you think, This is a god. This is perfection. But I...

Xenocide

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

Connect Bible Studies: The Da Vinci Code

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Collected Fiction

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.

The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ ]

Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant

The pianokeys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind

The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

The Complete Stories and Poems

Why can't we say 'When!' about money the way we say 'When!' about coffee?

Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude

Our stories become self-fulfilling; we will always live up to the story. So make it a desired one

Don't Think Of a Blue Ball

I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.

Death Bringer