Story Quotes
Death in love is the beginning of a eternal life ! Just make your soul free .
My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. Its great leverage; we abuse it all the time!
My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.
I love scary movies. I like American Horror Story. That is more of a series, but it is really good.
On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.
Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.
I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story.
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.
The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.
Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.
“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.
Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.
You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood
The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).
I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story. It's like knowing how the sausage is made.
I was recently told by a guy friend that red lipstick during the summer is distracting, and I said, "You need to shut up because I love red lips in the summer." Guys are stupid, moral of the story.
Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.
I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.
every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.
'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what to think.
Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.