Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

Two guys, a goat, and a ghost: A love story based on true events that may or may not be false. Who doesn’t love a good goat story?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Under the Greenwood Tree

I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.

Vendetta or the Story of One Forgotten

Sometimes GOD places walls NOT to hold us back, but to test our determination

Work Love Balance | The Story of Adam

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

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

What I Learned in Narnia

My life story is 75% true. But which quarter is a lie? Better check my pants pockets—the one the politician’s wearing.

Xazaqazax

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio

I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

Candice Accola

I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people mak...

Carlton Cuse

The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own.

Matt Groening

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

Write about us,” Robinson urged. “Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.

First Love

Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.

Fighting the Devil: A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder

Matthew Arnold made the horrible prophecy that literature would increasingly replace religion.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'

Rick Bragg