Quotes of: Stories Keyword

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

The Russian Interpreter

You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better themselves. Give them a stranger's life, and then they're content.

Redemption in Indigo

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

Right Ho, Jeeves

A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.

A Red Herring Without Mustard

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Have you ever experienced a beauty of soul, an esthetic grace, that was so intense it made you want to cry?" From Central Park Song ( A Screenplay )

Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.

Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Business

Sophie: "For the Create-A-Tale Competition, your story ended with Snow White eaten by vultures and Cinderella drowning her-self in a tub." Agatha: "I thought it was a better ending.

The School for Good and Evil

A good magician’s performance tells a story. Each act should build on the next, becoming ever more engaging to fill the audience with wonder. It’s a bud that unfurls into a flower, meant to woo the audience.

Shadowplay

Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points didn't leave behind grieving sisters who couldn't find their shoes.

The Sherlockian

What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called failure.

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

My Unfair Godmother

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts," she murmured.

The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho.

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

Moral Disorder and Other Stories

As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.

Men and Cartoons: Stories

It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship.

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories