Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
I'll write teen stories as long as people will let me. I'll also be excited for the day when I'm told I can no longer write teen stories.
I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.
If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.
That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.
My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.
Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
I'm inspired by many different things. Often, I'm inspired by experiences I've had, books I've read, people I've met, stories I've heard.
All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.
I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way.
This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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.
I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings."
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.
Share your stories of your worst moments as well as your best. Let your sisters know their problems are not unique and they are not alone.
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.
Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.
When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.
Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.
Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.
In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others!
However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.
You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically.
And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!
Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.
Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.
Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.
I'm against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name.
A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.