Stories Quotes - Page 255

These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

By now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The Read World is the real world is The Real World is the read world. It’s the same true story, even when it isn’t.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their stories of energy. And with that energy he cast a spell. It was a spell without words... His was a spell of instinct and emotion; language could not contain it.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end of the story – i.e. in the light of Christ

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.