Story Quotes - Page 9

All of which makes up a story I do not choose to tell. I choose not to tell it because to no one, not even to you, do I own proof that I am a substantial being with a substantial history in the world.

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share.

Each stroke of your fingers is a different word that describes the story. By itself it’s meaningless, but - ” I pushed down on a few fingers helping her play a few notes. “String them together and you have a melody. You have a story. So, Saylor, what story do you want to tell?

Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

Enemies are people who's story you haven't heard, or who's face you haven't seen.

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

And I’ll stop with the lecture now. I don’t like people much - they irritate and annoy me. But I’m
fascinated by them anyway.

When your life flashes through your eyes make sure there is enough to see, until then work hard on your ambitions and live life to the fullest.

I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte

I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones-I had a childhood.

It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.

It's fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds

He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer

The monkey liked most humans. They left food cans outside their homes for his family to rummage through in the morning
sun. Some yelled and threw sticks, but were slow and didn’t bite. Humans were mostly harmless.

Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.

Perhaps somebody has alredy written it. But I want to write a story from the end till the very beginning.

A hero isn’t a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe.