Stories Quotes - Page 260

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.

Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched out and some weaves being snatched off.

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened.

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.