Story Quotes - page 97

Any prairie farm can have a library of prairie plants, for they are drought-proof and fire-proof, and are content with any roadside, rocky knoll, or sandy hillside not needed for cow or plow. Unlike books, which divulge their meaning only when you dig for it, the prairie plants yearly repeat their story, in technicolor, from the first pale blooms of pasque in April to the wine-red plumes of bluestem in the fall. All but the blind may read, and gather from the reading new lessons in the meaning of America. (Aldo Leopold)
I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. View quote
Nicholas D. Kristof
A barrister's job is to put the case for the defence as effectively and clearly as would his client if he had an advocate's skills. The barrister's belief or disbelief in the truth of this story is irrelevant: it's for the jury to decide this often difficult question. View quote
John Mortimer
I lay it down as one of the distinctive characteristics of a good story that it pleases--or rather, seizes--every period of life; that the child, and his elder brother, and his father, and his grandfather, may read it with like enjoyment. View quote
Walter Besant
The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today. View quote
R. A. Lafferty
The main characters in this story, with whom you want to become intimate, are nowhere near here. They aren't expecting you; you mean nothing to them. If you think they're going to get out of their warm beds and travel miles to meet you, you are mistaken. View quote
Michel Faber
[Evolution] has in recent years been challenged in the world of science and is not yet believed in the scientific community to be as infallible as it once was believed. But if it was going to be taught in the schools, then I think that also the biblical theory of creation, which is not a theory but the biblical story of creation, should also be taught. View quote
Ronald Reagan
What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true! View quote
David Eagleman
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether. View quote
Abraham Verghese
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear. View quote
Anne Enright
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps. (Ann Patchett)
You are always someones favorite unfolding story. View quote
Ann Patchett
But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do. View quote
Ann Patchett
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads. View quote
Ann Patchett
Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand. View quote
Ann Patchett
Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves. View quote
Ann Patchett
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes. View quote
Michael Connelly
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done. View quote
Michael Connelly
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started. (Michael Morpurgo)
She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.' View quote
Michael Palmer
I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it. View quote
Michael Pitt
Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story. View quote
Michael Hyatt