Quotes of: Sad-story Keyword

...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.

Broken Abroad

A blanket is a tell-all story about its endeavors with certain highly publicized people and their somewhat promiscuous acts.

A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel. 

British Bulldog

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Bagombo Snuff Box

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Bag of Bones

The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.

The B-Side Diaries

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

The Blue Girl

Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.

Boy & Girl

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

The Book of Ivy

It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and to fabricate some when there was none.

The Bastard of Istanbul

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

The Bell Jar

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

Bloom

If your story is not inspiring you, it’s time to change it.

Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.

Breakout Presentations: Wow! People in Business and Life

And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams. And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.

The Book of Promethea

The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.

Beautiful Ruins

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all.

The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories

I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life.

For the Blood is the Life and Other Stories