1,653 Quotes About Story

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 convincingly-is the work that focuses on the things you care about. To not focus on those issues is to deny the constants in your life.

Writing Tip:Don't let the "writing rules" bog you down when you're writing the first draft; they don't matter when you're writing the story, only when you're editing the story.

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.

One recalls the literary writer who, after grasping a story of a Mars voyage as a metaphor for isolation and the precariousness of relationships, realized that at a deeper, more subtle level it might even be a story about an actual trip to Mars!

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.

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

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story.

A boy with a story must write.