Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

Laurie Lee

All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

Maeve Binchy

The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

Malik Bendjelloul

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

M. Kirin

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

Michelle Monaghan

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

Robin McKinley

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...

Rasheed Ogunlaru

I'm definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

Sergio Aragones

In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.

Sloane Crosley

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

Michael Ondaatje

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

Mark Pellegrino

Fiction isn't truer than life: it just makes a better story.

Marty Rubin

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Maria Semple

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

Marilyn vos Savant

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Mark Sheppard