Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story...

The Thirteenth Tale

Together we gazed out over corkscrew switchbacks cut through a barren, rocky landscape stretching to the horizon. It was simultaneously awesome and insane to be in this spot as a family, though, for a flicker of an instant, the lone explorer in me lo...

Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China

No wonder prostitution is so rampant in China, I mused as I watched the four girls watch us: why stand on your feet all day for slave wages when you can get rich on your back?

Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China

I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive." Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered "a crime, not a religion.

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

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

Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is…or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that’s what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.

The Unwanted Shadow

To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does

World War I: The Rest of the Story and How It Affects You Today, 1870 to 1935

Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them.

Witches Abroad

Because no matter how much we think otherwise, there are those ugly things that hold the greatest potential for beauty.

When a Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life's Hurts & Using Your Story to Make a Difference

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

Owen Owens Field embodies the name of the team that calls it home. It's Spartan to the core.

When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak

MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps All REALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

How could she understand it then——that one of her greatest blessings would come only through her greatest wound?

The Waiting: The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up

But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house". The moral of 'Snow White' is...

The Wide Window

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes. I don't always write in orde...

Erin Morgenstern

In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in 'West Side Story' when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved 'West Side Story' so much, and I somehow manag...

Paulo Costanzo

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write t...

Patricia Reilly Giff

I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even in death her life sought out beauty, for her moments were consumed with love and I could never write such a story without her stars flaming ...

Robert M. Drake

Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what ...

Ralph Macchio