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People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not.""Shouldn't the storyteller believe it.""The storyteller should tell it.
— Cecelia Ahern, The Gift
If something wants to be a story, it will be.
— Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y
I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.
— Milorad Pavić
A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.
— Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
— Patricia Briggs, The Hob's Bargain
Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks in the dusk, spinning. They each have a spindle, and on to these they are spinning their wool, milk-white, like the moonlight. In fact, it is the moonlight, the moon itself, which is why they don't carry a distaff. They're not Fates, or anything terrible; they don't affect the lives of men; all they have to do is to see that the world gets its hours of darkness, and they do this by spinning the moon down out of the sky. Night after night, you can see the moon getting less and less, the ball of light waning, while it grown on the spindles of the maidens. Then, at length, the moon is gone, and the world has darkness, and rest..... ...on the darkest night, the maidens take their spindles down to the sea, to wash their wool. And the wool slips from the spindles into the water, and unravels in long ripples of light from the shore to the horizon, and there is the moon again, rising above the sea....Only when all the wool is washed, and wound again into a white ball in the sky, can the moon-spinners start their work once more....
— Mary  Stewart, The Moonspinners
Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story.
— Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back
A story isn't a good one unless it has a good listener
— Antonia Michaelis, Tiger Moon
Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.
— Sherry Thomas, The Perilous Sea
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.
— Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist.
— Amy Efaw, After
Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.
— Francesca Lia Block, Baby Be-Bop
Write about us,” Robinson urged. “Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.
— James Patterson, First Love
The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide eyes, holding up his sword in defense, She heated his sword and he dropped it, his expression barely changing, as if he had been expecting that. She held up her two swords to his throat, but they were two heavy, so she dropped one and held the other with both hands. "Where are the two Bayern boys kept?" The soldier shook his head. BURN HIM, prompted the fire. The excitement of burning was simmering in her, heating her up for more action.
— Shannon Hale, Enna Burning
Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths...
— Rollo May
While I cannot prevent the birds from flying over my head, I can prevent them from making a nest in my hair. - Chapter 5 My Cinderella
— Santosh Avvannavar, The Departing Point: Two people departed...in search of love...leaving love in between
The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience.
— John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
What happened?" Bailey asks."That is somewhat difficult to explain," Tsukiko answers. "It is a long and complicated story.""And you're not going to tell me, are you?"She tilts her head a bit ... "No, I am not," she says."Great," Bailey mutters under his breath... "The bonfire exploded? How?""Remember when I said it was difficult to explain? That has not changed.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
— Anita Diamant, The Red Tent
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
— Richard Ford
There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
A night of full moon is favourable to tales of apparitions.
— Rómulo Gallegos, Doña Bárbara
Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.
— Harley King
If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories because we can't help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence death imposes. We tell stories because they save us.
— James Carroll
The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
It's a very remarkable story.""Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
— James Hilton, Random Harvest
The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.
— Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming.
— Gibson, Chrissy
Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.
— Steve Saint
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.
— Iain Banks, The Player of Games
The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong: a blackout, a strike, a spree killing. The Powers That Be would not suffer others to be in stories of their own unless they were fake stories that had been made up to motivate them.
— Neal Stephenson, Anathem
I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.
— Isabel Allende, Mi país inventado: Un paseo nostálgico por Chile
Every story is informed by a worldview.
— Brian Godawa, Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment
Hard to accept the end of a story that won the villain against heroes.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle
—  it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
Many stories magnify a fact.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
It's a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a story about life. But you can also experience it whole, and then it's not a story about life. Then it is life.
— Noam Shpancer, The Good Psychologist
I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
— Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.
— Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
Is there anyone’s life story you don’t want to know?”“Not really.” His expression was unexpectedly serious. “Because people make a story of their lives.Gains, losses, tragedy and triumph—you can tell a lot about someone simply by what they put into eachcategory. You can learn a lot about what you put into each category by your reaction to them. Theyteach you about yourself without ever intending to do it—and they teach you a lot about life.
— Michelle Sagara West, Cast in Fury
In life, every ending is just the start of another story.
— Julian Barnes, Love, etc.
She didn't see him watching as he played, having no idea that Hans Hubermann's accordion was a story. In the times ahead, that story would arrive at 33 Himmel Street in the early hours of morning, wearing ruffled shoulders and a shivering jacket. It would carry a suitcase, a book, and two questions. A story. Story after story. Story within story. 
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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.
— Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo
I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?
— Sara Pennypacker, Summer of the Gypsy Moths
Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora.To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain.What's your excuse?
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.
— Terry Tempest Williams, Pieces of White Shell
The meaning did not precede the dream; the dream preceded the meaning. So the way to read the tale is to let the imagination carry one along. Not, above all, as a rebus to be decoded.
— Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.
— Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary
End of story. ‘Happily ever after’ fell on everyone like a guillotine’s blade.
— Michael Cunningham, A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.
— Budd Schulberg
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
— Adam Johnson
Nine days after Perreault first saw the woman in black, an Indonesian mother of four came out of her tent long enough to claim that the mermaid had risen, fully-formed, from the very center of the quake.One of her boys, hearing this, said that he'd heard it was the other way around.
— Peter Watts, Maelstrom
There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.
— George Steiner, Real Presences
Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds
—  it is also the story of jackals and hounds
I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.
— Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace
Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am.
— Frederick Weisel
There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. 
— Gerald Hausman, The American Storybag
Am not great, but being the story of every whisper is just the greatest.
— Ahmed Farrag
It is safe to assume that any individual or group you wish to influence has access to more wisdom than they currently use. It is also safe to assume that they also have considerably more facts than they can process effectively. Giving them even more facts adds to the wrong pile. They don't need more facts. They need help finding their wisdom. Contrary to popular belief, bad decisions are rarely made because people don't have all the facts.
— Annette Simmons, The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion through the Art of Storytelling
We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there very long. Sooner or later you have to look at your own reflection and decide what to do with yourself.We are urban people. We make periodic pilgrimages to the country. . . . If we align ourselves with the spirit of place we will find humility fused with joy.The land holds stories.
— Terry Tempest Williams, Pieces of White Shell
When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path. They loom large because everything in the world of fairy tales is blown out of proportion. If the owl shouts, the otherwise deathly silence magnifies its call. The tasks you are given to do (by the witch, by the stepmother, by the wise old woman) are insurmountable - pull a single hair from the crescent moon bear's throat; separate a bowl's worth of poppy seeds from a pile of dirt. The forest seems endless. But when you do reach the daylight, triumphantly carrying the particular hair or having outwitted the wolf; when the owl is once again a shy bird and the trees only a lush canopy filtering the sun, the world is forever changed for your having seen it otherwise. From now on, when you come upon darkness, you'll know it has dimension. You'll know how closely poppy seeds and dirt resemble each other. The forest will be just another story that has absorbed you, taken you through its paces, and cast you out again to your home with its rattling windows and empty refrigerator - to your meager livelihood, which demands, inevitably, that you write about it.
— Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.
— Fish
The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.
— Kelly Cherry, The Exiled Heart: A Meditative Autobiography
I didn't find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places.
— Kelly Cherry, The Exiled Heart: A Meditative Autobiography
True or not, it's important to have stories ― they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.
— David Toscana, Our Lady of the Circus
A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story
— Enrique de Hériz, Lies
For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow ‘within’ and disclose our ‘true’ self. ("Everybody his story")
— Erik Pevernagie
He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He felt very alone, on an interminable day full of evil omens, and the story, though resistant to some of his intentions, was at least a testimony to reality and coherence
— José María Merino
Neither the cat nor I missed you while you were gone. It's worse than that. We danced the visitor-gone dance, flinging our feet (and paws) with particular glee. You remember the dance - the one you do after shutting the door behind a difficult visitor (like a family member)? You hold your breath for 120 seconds then deadbolt the door, race to the bed, leap on to it and jump, twirl, bell-kick and prance, singing all the while, "she's go-onnne, she's gooo-oonne.
— Melissa Checker
The story ﬂared, then faded.
— Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
We all have the time we need to tell our stories.
— Kim Zarins, Sometimes We Tell the Truth
Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict. Writers who cannot grasp this truth, the truth of conflict, writers who have been misled by the counterfeit comforts of modern life into believing that life is easy once you know how to play the game. These writers give conflict a false inflection. The scripts they write fail for one of two reasons, either a glut of banal conflict or a lack of meaningful conflict. The former are exercises in turbo special effects written by those who follow textbook imperatives to create conflict but because they're disinterested in or insensitive to the honest struggles of life, devise overwrought excuses for mayhem. The latter are tedious portraits written in reaction against conflict itself, these writers take the pollyanna view, that life would really be nice if it weren't for conflict. What writers at these extremes fail to realize is that while the quality of conflict in life changes as it shifts from level to level, the quantity of conflict is constant. When we remove conflict from one level of life, it amplifies ten times over on another level. When, for example, we don't have to work from dawn to dark to put bread on the table, we now have time to reflect on the great conflict within our mind and heart or we may become aware of the terrible tyrannies and suffering in the world at large. As Jean-Paul Sartre expressed it, "The essence of reality is scarcity. There isn't enough love in the world, enough food, enough justice, enough time in life. To gain any sense of satisfaction in our life we must go in to heady conflict with the forces of scarcity. To be alive is to be in perpetual conflict at one or all three levels of our lives.
— Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
to love is to destroy and that to be loved is the one to be destroyed
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfect time.
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing?
— Deyth Banger
Winter passed, and the world around began to wake. The birds returned to the kingdom and set about readying their nests, deer could be seen once more grazing where the fields met the woods, and buds burst forth upon the branches of the kingdom's trees.
— Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
The thing about finishing a story is that finishing is really only the beginning.
— William  Herring
Gene, you wouldn’t know a good story if it was tattooed on the end of your prick.
— Marcus Berkmann, Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek
Pieces of jigsaw puzzle might all be different but when fit in, completes the story. Expecting all pieces to be the same is craziness, completing the puzzle is what you are born for!!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
So that’s why I’m such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it’s less about ‘those people’. Because I think we’re all ‘those people’.
— Jeanette Walls
[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for us.[a symbol] also unlocks dimensions and elements of our soul which correspond to the dimensions and elements of reality. A great play gives us not only a new vision of the human scene, but it opens up hidden depths of our own being.
— Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith
I thought I detected a bit of wonder in his voice, that he'd like to become part of a story, any story.
— Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.
— Robert H. Barlow
The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
A vision is best presented as a story that people can relate to.
— Jim Kerr
I am dust and my story ends here.
— Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing
There was much work to be done in the crone's cottage, but the Princess was never heard to complain, for she was a true Princess with a pure heart. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Thus did the Princess grow up contented. She came to love the changing seasons and learned the satisfaction of sowing seeds and tending crops. And although she was becoming beautiful, the Princess did not know it, for the crone had neither looking glass nor vanity and thus the Princess had not learned the ways of either.
— Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
all we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character--what we believe--none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!
— Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.
— Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes
anything that was ever worth knowing began with once upon a time
— Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent
The more mistakes, the better the story afterwards. Especially if there's a happy ending.
— Felicia Day
machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time
— Alan Moore
Everything is 'just a story'. Tragedy, comedy, end of the world, what ever it's just a story. What matters is making sure it's heard.
— Mira Grant, Feed
She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?
— Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
What myth can hold when you kneel in your brother’s remains? When you slit his throat yourself? What story can guide us if we can betray all?
— David Vann, Bright Air Black
It's raining... because I am angry...*You know my story!
— Deyth Banger, The Life of One Kid 1
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The story will reach an end and yeah fucking hell yeah I fucking did it.
— Deyth Banger
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— Deyth Banger
We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you just got the story.
— Deyth Banger
One could say, in fact, that no story really has a beginning, and that no story really has an end, as all of the world's stories are as jumbled as the items in the arboretum, with their details and secrets all heaped together so that the whole story, from beginning to end, depends on how you look at it.
— Lemony Snicket, The End
Like it or not... that's my story and I can't do that or that each action by itself is a limitation.
— Deyth Banger, 4 Hours
Story, it turns out, is the assassin of despair.
— Robin Cody, Another Way the River Has: Taut True Tales from the Northwest
That's my story...I decided to share it with you all guys... like or don't... I don't give a fuck.
— Deyth Banger, The Life of One Kid 2
Hey, Salvo," asked Max when they had almost fallen asleep. "May I write your story?""Don't you dare, amico" was Salvatore's reply. "Kindly come up with your own storia, young Massimo. If you take mine, I'll have none left of my own
— Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop
It seems ironic, expecting the unexpected, like she had fabricated pieces of her story to make it more interesting. Considering my boredom with the current version, I can't imagine the first draft.
— Kayla Krantz, The Council
He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Many groups use the media and successfully manipulate what Theodor Adorno calls our psychological frailty. This psychological frailty correlates to anxiety. It also precedes and foments fascism, sexism, and racism.Because of our sense of free will, day-to-day anxiety can creep in as a form of guilt or the desire to belong / be loved.It is this frailty that is manipulated which may later be expressed in fascism, nationalism, sexism, racism.It's based on superego storytelling. But what's going on concurrent with all this is a shift from storytelling to storymaking.There's an entire subgroup, mostly the younger generations, that have been participating in gaming and social media in a way that will bring about a new synergy. This is Hegel's dialect approach to society.Jane McGonigal talks about this in her book Reality is Broken, Cathy Davis talks about this in her book Now You See It, Clay Shirky talks about this in his books Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody. Tapscott talks about this in his book Wikinomics.
— Chester Elijah Branch, Lecture Notes
Writing on role of victim, how we chose to be one in life , why we do it and how we can be free of that.Victim is a role we take very early in our life for many reasons. Like to protect ourselves, to be visible, to be listened, by fear, for approval and many others.It's the armour we create around us because we do not have any choices other then this. Slowly it become in our subconscious nature. We attract people in our life who are victimiser and we become victim again.We are used by them, we feel weak and overpowered by them.How do we know that we are in this role?It's very important for us to know that we are victim and its not doing good or serving us anymore. When we are victim we feel helpless, no power within, we physically too are unhealthy and our grounding is not stable.Find hard to make decision about anything, some of us find comfort in when other shows sympathy or pity towards us.We clearly need to know and accept that we have armour this role so far because there was no option or alternatives for us.Then slowly we can start choosing things, people which can bring us in our own body where we can tap that hidden power in us.Ask for help, engage in activity which will help you to break free of this mindset. We need to change our own energy frequency to attract people who are warrior, who are courageous and brave. Who can show us what does it feel to have courage and power within.Mantra isI do not need you my dear armour any more. Thank you for looking after me so long but now I am strong, confident and courageous to break free of this. I do not accept the role of Victim any more.
— Archna Mohan
But there's always a story behind the story. That's how the story never ends: Someone is always telling it, someone is always listening. A story is told about something someone else did once so that we won't make that same mistake now.
— Ari Berk & Carolyn Dunn
After all what's the lesson from all that?...Sometimes the title hasn't anything to do with the story...
— Deyth Banger, Reddit Collection
Or perhaps it has another form that only you can see and imagine. What story does the simple stone tell? Where did it come from? Isn't it like stones you yourself have picked up on your travels? Why do we keep such things? Reminders of all that has gone before, perhaps they keep us.
— Ari Berk & Carolyn Dunn, Coyote Speaks: Wonders of the Native American World
Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother to keep on turning the pages?
— Deb Loughead
Where would tourism be without a little luxury and a taste of night life? There were several cities on Deanna, all moderate in size, but the largest was the capital, Atro City. For the connoisseur of fast-foods, Albrechts’ famous hotdogs and coldcats were sold fresh from his stall (Albrecht’s Takeaways) on Lupini Square. For the sake of his own mental health he had temporarily removed Hot Stuff Blend from the menu. The city was home to Atro City University, which taught everything from algebra and make-up application to advanced stamp collecting; and it was also home to the planet-famous bounty hunter – Beck the Badfeller. Beck was a legend in his own lifetime. If Deanna had any folklore, then Beck the Badfeller was one of its main features. He was the local version of Robin Hood, the Davy Crockett of Deanna. The Local rumor mill had it he was so good he could find the missing day in a leap year. Once, so the story goes, he even found a missing sock.
— Christina Engela, Loderunner
This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh.” The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game.
— Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games
Because you came into lifeBecause I liked to get your sightBecause we were awake on the hill that nightBecause we roamed sitting side by sideBecause you slept on shoulder for a whileBecause you talked like a childBecause you made me smileBecause of your coffee bitesBecause your aroma made me flyBecause we shared in nightsBecause I read you line by lineBecause we sang old timesBecause we became crazy mindsBecause we criedBecause we poured our heart out – couldn’t hide.Because we drank and got highBecause you looked me that way that nightBecause you caressed my hair – love thrivedBecause we walked hand in hand for milesBecause you hold me tight before sunriseBecause you gave me reason to live lifeBecause you left me to surviveBecause I am just alive~Emptiness~
— Ravikant Mahto
A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.
— John Steinbeck
The story is told of yourself.
— Horace, Satires I
Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the page.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It was years ago now, on a warm summer night,When the boy came out of the sea.His skin was blue and his hair was white,And he was in love with me.He was wild and true, and right then I knewThat he was in love with me.In our ship we sailed for years on the ocean,Unfettered and totally free.And he gave all his days to his endless devotion,For he was in love with me.I called it a phase and made endless delays,Though he was in love with me.One day the waves swept him right off the shipAnd dropped him into the blue.As his skin turned to water, his hair into fish,He asked if I loved him too.Too late I called through the wind and the water,'I was always in love with you.'I was always in love with you.
— Traci Chee, The Reader
No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Now to tell ya about our fellow inmates. Pay attention because there are a bunch of us an’ we each have a story.
— Jason Medina, No Hope for the Hopeless at Kings Park
A good presentation = Conviction + Story + Message. Subject does not matter.
— Aayush Jain
A good presentation = Conviction + Story + Message. Subject does't matter.
— Aayush Jain
An event without a good presentation is like a pizza without cheese.
— Aayush Jain
So just over a year ago, there was this guy. I really liked him. I mean really – since I was a kid.” “Did Frankie know him?” “The three of us were best friends. We basically grew up together.” “Complicated.” “Very. So anyway, last year on my birthday, he finally kissed me.” Sam stays quiet, focused on his feet taking off and landing against the sand. It feels strange to tell him about this for so many reasons, but the words are coming too fast for me to stop, even if I want to. “We started hanging out all the time – even more than before. Every night. Only we didn’t know how to tell Frankie, because we didn’t want her to freak or feel left out or whatever.” “Makes sense,” Sam says. “He thought it would be better if he told her himself, so I promised him that I wouldn’t say anything. But before he could talk to her about it, he–” I almost choke on the word, holding my hand against Sam’s arm to stop our forward motion along the shore. “What did he do?” Sam asks. “He just – he – I’m sorry. Wait.” The words of this story have passed a thousand times from my hand to the pages of my journal, but never from my lips to the ears of another living soul. I take a few deep breaths before I’m able to meet Sam’s eyes and say it. “He died, Sam.
— Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
One bright sunny day at a successful Literary Agency…Literary Agent: “So, Tina – we asked you to try and write a children’s story…”Tina: “Uh-huh.
— Christina Engela, Innocent Minds
An actor cannot and must not become more important than the story.
— kambiz shabankareh
This was the first piece to the whole story—the beginning.
— Sarah Todd Hammer, Determination
You know that you know... but you don't know that you don't know.
— Deyth Banger
A great story can change the world.
— Stewart Stafford
We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe.
— Courtney M. Privett, Cavelost
This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade.
— Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend.
— Paul Smith
My story can move fast, as I can't, it can have a reasonable and perhaps perfect solution, as mine can't. A solution that is somehow satisfying, as my personal solution never can be.
— Patricia Highsmith
Be the hero of your own story. You are born to turn you mess into a message and the test into a testimony.
— Farshad Asl
When we place our immediate conflicts in the territory of an archetypal story we can better see the nature of our problems and find solutions that bring creative imagination to bear in the realm of hard facts and hardening dilemmas.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
Hearing a story awakens the mythic story living in each of us. It places us in a “mythic condition” that reconnects us to the core imagination and living story at the center of our soul. Being touched by myth carries us to the center where the world is always ending and always beginning again.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
I decided that a story was anything that I made up that kept the reader turning the pages or watching, and did not leave the reader or the viewer feeling cheated at the end.
— Neil Gaiman
We can feel isolated and powerless when living with chronic illness, but what if your story begins to bridge the barrier or open a way for someone to connect? What if your story offers a glimmer of hope to someone standing at the edge of desolation? ...What if your story starts the conversation?
— Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
I can change the story. I am the story.
— Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook
...story is a powerful stimulant with tremendous influence over how we think and act. Like meth, only safer.
— Kathleen Smith, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal
A story never ends. The narrator is usually provided with a nice, artistic spot for his voice to stop, but that's about all.
— J.D. Salinger
Are you quite sure that you want to hear it?" he asked. "Sometimes, Maria, a story that one hears starts one off doing things that one would not have had to do if one had not heard it.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse
We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
How the story is read is very important is it soft, is it in dry way or smooth...
— Deyth Banger
A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at some time, lived it. It is based on fact. But a myth is more than true because it is lived by all of us, at some level. It's a story that connects and speaks to us all.
— Linda Seger, Making a Good Script Great
A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at some time, lived it. But a myth is more than true because it is lived by all of us, at some level. It's a story that connects and speaks to us all.
— Lisa Seger
Sharing our stories is a vital part of doing life together. The disciples shared their stories and changed the world, not because they were extraordinary men, but because they told about an extraordinary God.
— Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
...our stories are who we are, where we begin. They connect us, tearing down walls and shattering isolation. For story is where hope begins.
— Cindee Snider Re
It Follows, can become a great story....So far the "Clown", is awesome it shows something incredible...
— Deyth Banger
Why don't you tell me a story?
— Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone
As usual, there was a story behind the story, and that is where the truth was hidden.
— Kenneth Eade, Beyond All Recognition
Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.
— Don Roff
Inside every human is a story worth sharing. What's your story?
— Lynda Cheldelin Fell
I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing's luckier than that.
— Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
— David Byrne, How Music Works
Tell, tell more sounds interesting and little familiar...
— Deyth Banger
Off Fuck off... the same story over and over and again and again.. I don't want it!
— Deyth Banger
Dubstep makes me feel confused and my headache get fixed, from chillstep I get sad - That's my story!
— Deyth Banger
My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all.
— Yann Martel, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
For the one who writes it . . . a story is like a mirror.
— Sylvia Iparraguirre, Tierra del Fuego
IF I can do it and you can do it, if I have a story and you have story.
— Deyth Banger
Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Don't envy my smile because it took me a lot of tears to get it. So when you see the glory, ask for the story.
— Olawale Daniel
conversion stories are one of the classic Western narratives about the self.
— Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
How can it be described? How can any of it be described? The trip and the story of the trip are always two different things. The narrator is the one who has stayed home, but then, afterward, presses her mouth upon the traveler’s mouth, in order to make the mouth work, to make the mouth say, say, say. One cannot go to a place and speak of it; one cannot both see and say, not really. One can go, and upon returning make a lot of hand motions and indications with the arms. The mouth itself, working at the speed of light, at the eye’s instructions, is necessarily struck still; so fast, so much to report, it hangs open and dumb as a gutted bell. All that unsayable life! That’s where the narrator comes in. The narrator comes with her kisses and mimicry and tidying up. The narrator comes and makes a slow, fake song of the mouth’s eager devastation.
— Lorrie Moore, Birds of America
Every story needs a Hero.
— April Genevieve Tucholke
There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The Ring 1)
— Deyth Banger
Come closer, and I will tell you."But he forgot. He kissed her, and became lost in the exquisite sensation of his skin becoming too tight for his body. He murmured other things instead. A secret, a want, a promise. A story, in its own way.
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss
Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.
— Alan Cohen
If the hero does not match the story, it is the hero, not the story, who must be rewritten.
— Lauren Kate, Waterfall
Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in.
— Rachelle Rea Cobb, The Sound of Diamonds
When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.
— Don Roff
The Book CharmYour Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared
— Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet
The old adage that ‘there are two sides to every story’ is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.
— Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files
I know that story, when you start a fight, the main idea is one to survive, one to be the victim and one to be the killer. This explains why FBI, CSI and DIA and other departments are here!
— Deyth Banger
(Topper) I’ll story ’em, Fin. I’ll story ’em clean.
— A.S. Peterson, Fiddler's Green
Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.
— John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
So, at the last, a story.
— Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors
Behind every great hatred is a love story.
— Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors
Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.
— Meg Wolitzer, Belzhar
When you know how, it's a pleasure to burn.
— Saahil Prem
She walks into my life legs first, a long drink of water in the desert of my thirties. Her shoes are red; her eyes are green. She's an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris. She mixes my metaphors like a martini and serves up my heart tartare. They all do. Every time. They have to. It's that kind of story.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams
Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists.
— John Mark Green
what's real within the story is real within the story
— Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great
When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story.
— Shawn Lukas
The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.
— Rick Moody, Hotels of North America
Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Don’t judge me. You’re not living my life and you know nothing about my battles. You have not the faintest idea of how I manage to smile in the middle of storms or how I transform my despair into delight. You have not the faintest idea of what I have gone through and why I am who I am today. This is my life and only I know the real story. The strains, the struggles, the sorrows are all mine. They’re not for you to assess or evaluate; I give that authority to none, for My Guiding Light is Within. - Manprit Kaur
— Manprit Kaur
When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ....
— Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When will you be brave enough to recognize your success story?
— Andrea T. Goeglein, Don't Die Waiting to Be Brave
A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.
— Johnny Rich
As a screenwriter - if you are completely honest with yourself - you can’t help but admit that your greatest threat is the audience, where audience is not understood as a demographic category but as a character outside the script to whom the story is addressed. A good part of the drama necessary for uncovering the story resides in the conflict between the storyteller and his/her audience. Audience plays the part of antagonist to the writer’s role as protagonist. The writer drives the action, which is forever complicated, frustrated and undermined by the audience’s needs and sensibilities. Audience wants you to prove it. Audience has a chip on its shoulder, and doesn’t give a damn. Audience has been there and done that in the guise of your mother, your father, your ex-, your worst enemy. Audience laughs at your stupidity and dares you to change its view of you and the story world that you would have it care about. Audience is defiant. It has your number. The only way you can defeat it is by carrying a bigger stick - your only defence is an inspired offence, namely the story.
— Billy Marshall Stoneking
We are Living in the Last Chapters of Life... Find Your Purpose and make it the Best Story possible.
— Randa Manning-Johnson
A story knows its way.
— Renata Bowers