174 quotes found
“For the one who writes it . . . a story is like a mirror.”
“Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.”
“conversion stories are one of the classic Western narratives about the self.”
“Every story needs a Hero.”
“The old adage that there are two sides to every story is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.”
“So, at the last, a story.”
“what's real within the story is real within the story”
“The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.”
“You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ....”
“A story knows its way.”
“Its the oldest story in the world. You want him back, dont you?”
“Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.”
“He was in the flow of time now. He was in a story.”
“Theres always a story that people are telling about themselves, and sometimes you can get them to tell it ever so slightly differently.”
“We tell the stories we have to tell, stories of the things that draw us in-and why should any of us have more than a handful of those? The only work really worth doing-the only work you can do conv...”
“Its a question of wanting to know how the story turns out. And one can only know that about one story, ever.”
“As far as Im concerned, story is everything. It is why we get up in the morning and how we choose who to take to bed at night. Story is the thread that weaves together the very fabric of reality.”
“The more life a story has the more readily will it be susceptible of allegorical interpretations: while the better a deliberate allegory is made the more nearly will it be acceptable just as a story.”
“Tell the fucking story.”
“Thered be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, wed die unstoried deaths.”
