4150 Story Quotes for You to Enjoy

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away. Chinua Achebe

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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. Daphne du Maurier

Love Women Men Short Want Short Story Story Novel

Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories. Eduardo Galeano

Day Me Bird Made Atoms Say Also Because Scientists Human Human Beings Stories Story Little Mean Beings Each Each Day Deserves

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. Elvis Presley

Life Hope You Too Much My Life Too Bore Life Story Story Much

It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear. Italo Calvino

Communication Voice Commands Story Ear

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story. James Dashner

Good Tell Unpredictable Be Real Good Story Real Story Interesting

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. Joshua Bell

You Telling Piece Story Storyteller Play Violin

How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs? Kenneth Branagh

It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort. Lee Gutkind

Life People Worth Real Life Difficult Dig Others Easy Find Life Story Stuff Make Real Repeat Time-Consuming Up Effort Real People Report Quite Situations Rewards Information Story

Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story. Lee Gutkind

Creative Journalist Approaches Liberating Writer Writers He He Or She True Ideas She Genre Non-Fiction Because True Story Get Essayist Fiction Fiction Writer Fiction Writers Story Whether Use Techniques Chance

To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of distinct groups of muscles with a purpose quite apart from feeding me. The work itself gives me a keener interest in the story of the hog: where it came from and how it found its way to my kitchen. Michael Pollan

Work Me Made Way Distinct Gives Kitchen Purpose Feeding Reminded How Came Up Itself Mammal Quite Where Hog Story Interest Apart Shoulder Large Groups Keener Found Pork Butcher Muscles

Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way. Pamela Meyer

Memory People Remember Will Liars Chronological Way Prominence Rarely Recount Emotional Order Stories Story Works Honest Honest People

Now you know the rest of the story. Paul Harvey

You Rest Know Story Now

Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story. Regina Brett

Love Victim Too Sympathy Our Characters Must Someone Both Invested Attention Go Get Often Being Story Villain Let Go

We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed and we don't know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It's hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story. Sharon Salzberg

Exactly See Seed Come Like Know How End Times Front Going May Just Fruition Story Manifest Might Realize Us Hard Planting Many Away Right Things Right Away

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking

People Dark Computers Fairy Heaven Afraid Afterlife Story

When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. Bruce Feiler

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Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end. David Whyte

Blame Honesty Fault Will Not Knowing Live Carry Know Knowing Ultimately End Where In The End Story Us Full Who

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit. Don Miguel Ruiz

Life Character You Integrity Yourself Whatever Beneath Spirit Perceive Voice Main Main Character Make Read Another Always Hear Dictates Story Then Your Agreements Four

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. George Eliot

Time Rather Longer Read Same After Story Us Lapse Who

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me. Greta Garbo

Life Me People My Life Doors Other Side Back Secret Ways Out About Entrance Bother Getting Story Places

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