Quotes of: Real-story Keyword

It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming real. It pricks their well-fed minds, you see, with something like a hunger pang. They prefer the logical stuffines...

Collected Stories, Vol. 1

Whose boys are those with the holes in their pants?" I cringed. How would my grandpa answer such an embarrassing question? "Those are my daughter's children, my grandchildren," Grandpa spoke as if he'd just been asked who had won first place in a foo...

Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking....

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

What makes God real for anyone is faith.

Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Chuck Palahniuk

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

Lin Shaye

Moral stories are always imaginary , but these stories induce real moral values in a human society .

Love

We do not enjoy a story fully at first reading. Not till curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savor the real beauties.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as w...

Stephenie Meyer

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

Earthly Powers

Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.

Eating Naked: Stories

My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really big laughs. I don't necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. 'Caddyshack' is amazing, but there's not a lot of...

Jake Johnson

These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.

Derivation of Life

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

Ira Glass

In your life, right here and now, things like mermaids, fairies, witches and monsters are nothing but fairytales told to your grandchildren and stories you heard from your own grandparents as children. They exist only in your imagination. Did you eve...

Marilena Mexi

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

I Am Legend and Other Stories

Sometimes,” Shearl said, “people need to be reminded that God is real.

Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again

We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?

Brendon Burchard

Not one thing we've done changes that we are his. That he created us and loves us with a love more fierce and loyal than any we will ever know. He isn't looking for perfection. He's looking for humble hearts that know we are nothing without his lavis...

The Antelope in the Living Room: The Real Story of Two People Sharing One Life

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

Heather Graham

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

A Thousand Mornings