Quotes of: Story Keyword

At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

Sylvester Stallone

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

Suzy Bogguss

I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

Alan Ball

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

Alan Ball

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

Anais Nin

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Umberto Eco

You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.

Love

Because we are all connected, we are meant to share our "story" with the world. It strengthens both the story teller and the listener.

Life

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

Yahoo Serious

We want our children to know and believe the one good story. Every other story is a copy or shadow of this one. Some copies of it are quite good and shout the Truth. Others see only the faintest whisper of it, or, in its absence remind us of the Trut...

Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within us, the capacity to conceptualize, objectify and find patterns, thereby to create the flow of events and ...

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us ...

Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months

It is usually assumed that children are the natural or the specially appropriate audience for fairy-stories. In describing a fairy-story which they think adults might possibly read for their own entertainment, reviewers frequently indulge in such wag...

Tolkien on Fairy-stories

Thomas Builds-the-Fire's stories climbed into your clothes like sad, gave you itches that could not be scratched. If you repeated eve a sentence from one of those stories, your throat was never the same again. Those stories hung in your clothes and h...

Reservation Blues

Every story has two sides and every song has twelve versions.

Icelandic

He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you.

Irish

There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven nights he was on the sea, and what kept him alive while others drowned was telling himself stories like a madman, so that as one ended another began. O...

Lighthousekeeping

Every achievement starts from a dream. So let's dream!

Charm: An Amazing Story of a Little Black Cat

Theirs was a long, complicated story with a monster and a knight. What made their story unique was that these two players were the same person.

Convicted

The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.

Crossing Myself: A Story of Spiritual Rebirth

I was always a stranger at home, in all the places I ever lived.

Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude