Quotation Explorer - 'Story'

A good story conveys a message that strengthens our values. - Ronald R. Cooke

Dream too much,but keep dreaming of big one.this one will be your success story one day. - Mohammed Sekouty

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means. - William Kittredge

...have always been known for their storytelling. It appears to be the supreme expression of their spirit. Perhaps they know that, without a story, there could be no nation, no culture, no civilization, no life. - I. Murphy Lewis

In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens. - A.D. Posey

A good story is always written with the tears of tragedies and triumphs, and the love and kindness of our lives. - Debasish Mridha

Trust in your story, it's powerful enough. Oftentimes, it is not the lack of power that is our struggle; but it is our unawareness of the power that we do have, which is our biggest hurdle to surmount. - C. JoyBell C.

Our thoughts are just a story our mind tell us. - Romina Avila

Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own. - Majid Kazmi

The world is drowned in silence, who will tell your story ? Who tells doesn't know you and who knows, cannot say it. - Syed Azeem Bukhari

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. - Frederik Pohl

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. - Jules Renard

What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The best chapters in your life story are written by love. - Matshona Dhliwayo

No guts, no story. - Chris Brady

When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again. - Kai Strand

To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted. - Judith "Jack" Halberstam

Each story provides a beginning, a middle and an end, the trick is, never seperate them through the chapters or you'll miss the meaning of the entire book. - Nikki Rowe

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists. - Jefferson Smith

The story of grace is the Gospel of not just forgiveness, but also of redemption. God uses the weak, the ones who have failed and the ones who had run out of second chances long ago. - Kristen McNulty

Never settle for half the story, and make-up and imagine the rest. Get the full Story! - RYCJ

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. - Wayne W. Dyer

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story. - Frank Herbert

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth. - Paula Danziger

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. - John Dewey

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story. - Don Snyder

Failure for one is a source of creativity, build on it and a different story will puzzle itself. - Unarine Ramaru

Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls. - Shah Asad Rizvi

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man. - Susana Fortes

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle. - Julian Seifter

People Power is too often an inverted fairy story - the triumph of innocence coming at the start and the Ugly Sisters of intrigue and ambition coming on stage in triumph for the final curtain. - Mark Almond

To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning. - Auliq Ice

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight. - J. Michael Straczynski

On these days, I've never felt so hollow. Recollecting the many pieces of me that were lost in past sub-lives. They were the minor characters of my novel life, the sub-plots to the whole story. On these days I was the binding that held the book together, I was not the words. - Hubert Martin

When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be. - Chuck Palahniuk

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me. - Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan

Become your own success story, not someone else's. - Stephen Richards

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In a world full of polished and perfected final drafts, she was the raw and honest scribbled story. - Kavya Janani.U

A story has value whether it's true or not. - Marty Rubin

You stole my story and something's got to be done about it. - Stephen King

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. - Will Durant

All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important. - Isabelle Rowan

Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward. - Laurence Overmire

...hope nourishes while loss empties a person out," he said.... "Lila, my love, my love,...lay down your weapons. Don't punish us because I told myself a different story than the one you told yourself. - Anat Talshir

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock. - William H. Gass

Life is an adventurous story filled with triumph and tragedy. - Debasish Mridha

We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero. - Daniel Kahneman

If there so many hurdles in your life to achieve something, you have to believe God firmly.Because He is creating a wonderful story to inspire people through you, that couldn't be done with a single stroke of success. - raja shakeel mushtaque

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."[A Conversation with , BookBrowse, 1998] - Alice Munro

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told. - Rita Webb

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret. - Silas House

The thing I always wanted to say is that surviving abuse sucks. But it's also a choose-your-own-adventure story. - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day. - Ernest Hemingway

If you want to know the truth, he says, leaning forward like he’s getting ready to tell a really good story, it has to do with Kelsey. And the biggest lie of all.And that’s when I realize the thing about the truth. It always comes out, no matter what you do. - Lauren Barnholdt

At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It’s like distilling something. - A.D. Posey

Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story. - Shannon L. Alder

How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere? - Markus Zusak

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum. - Paulo Coelho

My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential. - Gordon Atkinson

The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story. - Michael P. Naughton

The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don't let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. - Unarine Ramaru

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving. - J.R.R. Tolkien

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless. - Salman Rushdie

We are the hero of our own story.

To say that my existence is entirely inconsequential is to utterly ignore the amazing reality that life is a masterful story penned by a brilliant God who wrote me into the story in such a way that my absence would literally diminish the whole of the story. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time. - Ryan Lilly

Every pause is a precursor to new thoughts, every thought is potentially a new story, every story is a new interpretation and every interpretation is a new shade of grey. - Mayank S. Sengar

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story - Brandt Legg

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story. - Don Roff

so many people would be afraid to look in the mirror if the saw their character and not their face…it would be like american horror story. - Turcois Ominek

One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real. - Sara Sheridan

There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk - Susan Pace-Koch

It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story. - Richard Gist

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. - Eudora Welty

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart. - Neil Gaiman

In the story of life, the prologue and epilogue are written by God. Yet the plot has been given to us; therefore we should write the best prose we can. - James D. Maxon

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood. - Marcus Sedgwick

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page. - Naomi Shihab Nye

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

We do not want to deny existence. Yet we also do not want to limit existence. Thus, we observe and honor without forming opinion, labeling, or adding a story to the object of our observation. - Alaric Hutchinson

Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am. - Frederick Weisel

Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about. - Jeffrey Lewis

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. - Douglas Pagels

Don't you dare feel guilty for letting those who dim your light, go. Not everyone you meet deserves to be a character in your story. - Nikki Rowe

Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing. - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

A book is simply a snap shot of the full story. - Erica Goros

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning. - Arundhati Roy

My story can move fast, as I can't, it can have a reasonable and perhaps perfect solution, as mine can't. A solution that is somehow satisfying, as my personal solution never can be. - Patricia Highsmith

Make this part of your brand DNA... Tell Your Story In a Way People Will Care. - Ted Rubin

A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source. - Jules Cashford

All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story. - James MacDonald

Whatever story you create in your life, you deserve your own Karma be it good or bad…. - - - Cocoy McCoy

the story of love and vanity are always as though as ice and heat - Rishad sakhi

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means. - Brennan Manning

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end. - Vera Nazarian

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. - James M. Barrie

Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words. - L.L. Caulton

The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone. - Faraaz Kazi

Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it... - M. Scott Momaday

I believe in letting the story speak for itself. - L.M. Fields

Life is Like a Book, You cant Just read the Back, you Have to Dive in and Experience The Story within - Look Im A Cat

Living in a world: where to be born, is a mere by mention. To be living, a story. Then to die, our eternal; restart! - Stb Hernández

Not everything can stand the test of time, but a story can. - A.D. Posey

If a story is in you, it has to come out. - William Faulkner

Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me. - T. William Watts

Every story needs to be worth telling. - Vera Nazarian

How the story is read is very important is it soft, is it in dry way or smooth... - Deyth Banger

A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend. - Paul Smith

As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer. - Ole Hallesby

It's better to be the hero of your own story than to become the villain of someone else's. - Chris Colfer

There's no reason to worryI started brand new story - Rocky13

For walk where we will, we tread upon some story. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Once you know you are worthy and your story is worthy, you fight for other stories. - Jedidiah Jenkins

A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it. - Greg Behrendt

Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself? - Allie Condie

She didn't say anything—at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had a thousand tongues talking, each in a language I didn't speak. - J.X. Burros

The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world. - Sunday Adelaja

Every story needs a Hero. - April Genevieve Tucholke

Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story. - Bill Johnson

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read. - Shannon L. Alder

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. - C.S. Lewis

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."[Keynote Address, University of the Arts, 134th Commencement (Philadelphia, PA, May 17, 2012)] - Neil Gaiman

Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be. - Patrick Rothfuss

Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story. - Richie Norton

We write by the light of every story we have ever read. - Richard Peck

Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise. - Richelle E. Goodrich

All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are "correct". For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own. - Orson Scott Card

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure. - Richard Ford

Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it - Jason Calder

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key! - Anaïs Nin

Love a girl and she will give you a story to tell,Love a woman and she will give you a novel to pen... - Dinesh Kumar Biran

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear. - Kamand Kojouri

Leprechauns are not twee beings dreamed up by the tourist board, but warriors of legend. That name comes from the Celtic god of commerce and war, Lugh. Their mission, their life’s work, is to protect the gold. What better way to hide it than to become a joke, a story nobody takes seriously? - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad

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. - Linda Westphal

...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. - Angelica Banks

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later. - Patricia C. Wrede

God is the Master Author of your life. He has written every page of your life story in His eternal book. It's up to you to turn up the pages and move on with the next chapter or just get yourself stuck in the same content over and over again."- Elizabeth's Quotes - Elizabeth E. Castillo

Paradoxically, however, a story ceases to be like life on its last page. Life goes on, but the story does not. Its characters have no vitality outside the first page and after the last is only good as the next reader's. - Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. - Frank Tyger

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. - Charlotte Eriksson

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. - Barack Obama

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (), A Cinderella Story - Hilary Duff

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. - Carlos Fuentes

Every heart has a story to tell. Some dreams have wings, some are torn at the seams and just sit there on the shelf. If you were to walk in my shoes, you would see that we are all the same. So find the love inside yourself because every heart has a story to tell. - Sara Haze

Just go on reading, as well as you can, and be sure that when the children get the thrill of the story, for which you wait, they will be asking more questions, and pertinent ones, than you are able to answer. - Arthur Quiller-Couch

Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" ) - Erik Pevernagie

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story. - Sarah Addison Allen

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages - Israelmore Ayivor

Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth. - John Cheever

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing. - George Lucas

Dubstep makes me feel confused and my headache get fixed, from chillstep I get sad - That's my story! - Deyth Banger

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story. - Brian Keene

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. - Robert Frost

Your world is your story with tragedies and triumphs; never forget that you are the editor too. - Debasish Mridha

i choose to focus my energy on what I believe deserves my time, life passes us by so quickly and before we know it; were looking back at our story, make sure the choices you decide on; will give you a movie worth watching. - Nikki Rowe

I'm never really upset when a person lies because I don't place much value in truths. When you look at the grand design, you realize that there are no truths, only stories. In other words, the only truth is that we are all stories. Lies are just part of the story that we tell. - Lionel Suggs

My godfather sad that story was abut taking the chaotic jigsaw of life, making it into a picture and putting a frame around it so that we could look at it, have control over it. Story and art are the humanizing elements of us. - Emma Thompson

A good presentation = Conviction + Story + Message. Subject does not matter. - Aayush Jain

The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words. - Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family. - Erica Lorraine Scheidt

When will you be brave enough to recognize your success story? - andrea T Goeglein

Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story. - Shannon L. Alder

Life is a story. I wake up, it was a sacred dream. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The only way to get the ending you want is to write your own story. - Ashley Ford

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. - Raymond Carver

Don't envy my smile because it took me a lot of tears to get it. So when you see the glory, ask for the story. - Olawale Daniel

I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally engaged in the story. - John Grooters

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child - Miguel Syjuco

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity – its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self. - Tobias Wolff

IN THE END, THE JOURNEY OF THE STORY BEGINS - Goitsemang Mvula

The Bible is the greatest love story ever told. - Jordan Wells

Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter. - J. Nozipo Maraire

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. - Paul A. Samuelson

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing. - Evinda Lepins

Your story may not have such a happy beginning but that does not make you who you are, it is the rest of it- who you choose to be - Soothsayer from Kung Fu Panda 2

When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story. - Shawn Lukas

Every song I am listening toIt has an imaginary story about you. - Ahmed Ali Anjum

So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them. - Graham Greene

Without desire how is it possible to make a story? - JM Coetzee

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it. - Seeley James

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle. - Hillary Rodham Clinton

It is raining! In other words little poems are coming down from the sky! Nature is literature! Sun is a fable; forest is a story; birds are a theatre; mountains are a myth; rain is a poem! Nature is literature! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Who lives inside your head? The hero of your story OR The victim of someone else's? - Tony Curl

Sometimes,' I said, 'you have to let one story end so the next one can begin.''How do you know when that will happen?''You don't,' I said. 'Which is why you should always carry on. - Lindsay Mattick

Some of the best mysteries end in a love story. - Shannon L. Alder

To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to continue. - Jennifer Salaiz

A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story - Thomas Wright

Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change. - Shannon L. Alder

A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of it's climax - complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary! - Mehek Bassi

Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations. - Robert McKee

All life is only allegory and the real story is not here... - Richard Flanagan

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is. - Theodore Sturgeon

Feelings have more to do with the story you tell yourself than the facts. - Marilyn Suttle

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending. - Jodi Picoult

Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary. - Ryan Trinder-James

Remember:It’s all in your head… all of it.If you don’t like the story, change it.If the people around don’t accept your new story; change them. - Steve Maraboli

Never make a judgment on a one sided story because people may tell you what they want you to hear, rather than what you need to hear. - Gugu Mona

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word. - Don Roff

The end is the best part of any story - Michael Grant

The survival spirit; either read or write a story. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It's not an easy thing to tell a true story. - Allen Morris Jones

Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how we are build, few are the people which share their story, most cases because of shame. - Deyth Banger

A story knows its way. - Renata Bowers

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story. - Pam Houston

When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London. - Sara Sheridan

They tell us the greatest love story is how water fell in love with fire. Or how satan fell in love with God. But the greatest love story to me is how I didn’t notice myself falling, when I fell in love with you - Kamand Kojouri

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. - Jeffrey Archer

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration. - Adam Johnson

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table. - Mick Jagger

1408 Film by Stephen King freak me out, the story also freak me out. But watching the film how is made, how much reverses were shown just terrified me. The ending was suprising! - Deyth Banger

Everyone has a story with coca-cola people like Wayne Dyer even and people like Alan Rickman and many other people, so... they are dead so you can take it Coca-Cola is part of the history! - Deyth Banger

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. - Norman Mailer

She is a free spirit: an inquisitive voyager. She knows no boundaries and resists control. She sails fearlessly with 'time' as her soul grows beauty. She is graceful, yet she owns her story. - Amelia Dashwood, The Writer of the Woods

It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character. - Michelle Richmond

Howl said, I think we ought to live happily ever after, and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more eventful than any story made it sound, though she was determined to try. - Diana Wynne Jones

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story. - Horacio Quiroga

Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse. - Roman Payne

I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men,my love story would be comprising of short stories. - Pushpa Rana

We love those to whom we can tell our story. - Marty Rubin

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it. - Kurt Vonnegut

When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists. - John Mark Green

You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect. - Ann Marie Frohoff

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story. - Steve Maraboli

I have no objection to the expression of political opinions in SF if they are an integral part of the story structure. I don't at all appreciate their intrusion for the purpose of converting a story into a political tract, because I consider that intellectually insulting. - Roger Zelazny

How many pages will it take to tell your story? - Ashly Lorenzana

When you begin a new story, your job is to envision, to try to glimpse stuff that doesn't as yet exist. That's what writing is, going out to meet the ghosts of the future. Not out of the past, not the ones that are dead and buried. Ghosts of the future, those who don't exist yet. - Cédric Klapisch (screenplay writer); spoken by Xavier Rousseau in Casse-tête Chinois (Chinese Puzzle

Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story. - Marty Rubin

If anything viewed as negative has happened on your journey thus far, turn the page, create a new chapter, and write your own positive story. Then, bless humanity with the wisdom you have gained by traveling through the experience. - Molly Friedenfeld

Reality doesn't care about convenience or dramatic story progression. - Anonymous

Dreams are like drama, they unfold the story on the stage. - Debasish Mridha

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too. - Marty Rubin

In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey,created on paper canvas that brought the story to life. - Jazz Feylynn

If you want success, then be your own success story. - Steven Cuoco

For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

I wanted to know every story behind the scars on her curves. I wanted to decipher the whispers hidden beneath her every breath. I wanted to unravel her with my hands. - Hubert Martin

You are not yourself in autobiography. It is never going to be you, it is only words on a page. Memories are unreliable, so adding the magic of imagination will make your story come alive. - K.H. Rennie

Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them. - Red Haircrow

History narrates stories about great men from the past,write your story now and make history - Mohammed Sekouty

Who, however, is in doubt ‘and’ awe (thaumázein) about a matter doesn’t believe in the thing to begin with. That is why the friend of Stories (mŷthos) is also in a certain way a philosopher; because the Story arises out of awe.’ (’s Metaphysics: Book I. Part II) - Aristotle

It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself. - Shannon L. Alder

Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next person is the story that you tell about it. In order for truth to be recognized as true, it has to be wrapped in plausibility. Just the same as lies. (" Daniel Abraham - Another Word: Plausibility and Truth

I wanted to know the denouement of your life story. I have no interest in the narrative. - Debasish Mridha

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect. - Kathryn L. Nelson

If you own this story you get to write the ending. - Brené Brown

Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing. - Leigh Allison Wilson

Novels are just very, very, very long lies. That is to say, you’ve got to get your story straight! - Blair Thornburgh

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. - Todd Strasser

It’s always more than just a story. - A.D. Posey

No one likes incomplete story, so does the God :-) - Raj Vanjara

Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming. - Gibson, Chrissy

Today is your wright-time. Anything worth writing will be, or has been written already. A great story chooses its writer lest no wright should boast. Just write! If you don't, you will come right in contact with your thoughts someplace soon. - Amah Lambert

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

Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward. - Bridget Asher

Life is but a story told at one's funeral - Charles Slamowitz

Watch the little ones around you; most have a story you haven’t heard of. - Sanjeet Veen

I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats. - Frank Tuttle

Who you are moment to moment is just a story. - Chuck Palahniuk

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - Gene Roddenberry

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer. - Jean Little

Some people will leave you soon no matter how, but it's not the ending of your story, it's just the ending of their role in your story. cause life goes on, and you should just expect damage from others. - Marouane LAASSAFAR

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend. - Palle Oswald

Christian Fiction is like a parable. The story is made up, but the truth is brought to life. Enjoy the story, but savor the truth. - Mary Ann Brantley

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. - James Baldwin

It's my time to scare you, it's time for scary story. - Deyth Banger

Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy. Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.and also my friend i learned this To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers like u it is a story book. - Sean Davz

An actor cannot and must not become more important than the story. - kambiz shabankareh

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

We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell. - Kemi Sogunle

There's 3 sides to every story. Time will tell who the real asshole is despite what you were told. - April Mae Monterrosa

Description is the color in the canvas of your story. - M. Kirin

I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues. - Jodi Picoult

This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love. - Charlotte Eriksson

a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells. - Robert Macfarlane

Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. He hasn't covered a story in years.

So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.'Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope. - Thomas Dutton

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. - Jordan Belfort

Most information doesn’t constitute a story. Think of a telephone directory: lots of information, strong cast, but a bit weak on narrative. What counts in a story is its meaning. And that’s a very different concept from information. - Ian Stewart

So, what is my story? I don't know. It's long and twisted and not quite finished yet. - Caitlyn Paige

The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates. - Vladimir Nabokov

How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does. - Linda Grant

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. - Lorrie Moore

The story of money is very funny. Others burn what we earn. Why not give as we live, so the world will cry when we die. - RVM

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. - Helen Keller

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not. - Coco J. Ginger

In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story. - Shannon L. Alder

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. - Ray Bradbury

Saying 'Love you' never creates a story, its the beginning of trouble. - Sumanta Goswami

Without story books is like a person with no soul. - Stephen King

Laughter is easiest said in a story; some people just forget that their life is a story. - Andrew Carson

Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger. - Joss Whedon

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read. - A.D. Posey

This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it; nor will I apologize for the edits I make. - Steve Maraboli

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story. - Billy Marshall

Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future. - Habeeb Akande

There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale. - Richelle E. Goodrich

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. - Ann Patchett

Story is more akin to the lines on your palm. No matter what your fortuneteller claims, the lines are not maps of your future. They are side effects of the flexion of the hand. - Jonathan Gottschall

Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story. - Sunday Adelaja

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller - G.K. Chesterton

There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else. - Shannon L. Alder

IF I can do it and you can do it, if I have a story and you have story. - Deyth Banger

The heart of a story gives it life. - A.D. Posey

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper. - Nema Al-Araby

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed that I was due a love story. - Sara Barnard

Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be. - Harley King

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story. - Karen Blixen

People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expectations of a story, and truly step into a different world of literature. - Lionel Suggs

He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He felt very alone, on an interminable day full of evil omens, and the story, though resistant to some of his intentions, was at least a testimony to reality and coherence - José María Merino

Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. - George R.R. Martin

God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warriors for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know. - Shannon L. Alder

It's not about people believing the story. It's about you knowing and holding it to be true. - Joan Ambu

I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even in death her life sought out beauty, for her moments were consumed with love and I could never write such a story without her stars flaming in my heart. - Robert M. Drake

I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey. - Santosh Kalwar

The story of getting there is greater than the story of being there. Wherever your there might be. - Chris Burkmenn

Do you think you’re not ‘ready’ to start that big story idea/project you’ve been thinking about forever?Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of faith. - M. Kirin

Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear. - Alan Cohen

When you allow God to change your heart, He will also change your story. - Gugu Mona

Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you’re still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose. - Steve Maraboli

I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life... - Mordecai Richler

You are not a story, your life is a story and youare the writer, write an inspiring one. - Wordions

Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds... - Leigh Hunt

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. - Terry Pratchett

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. - John Barth

Every object holds a story. - A.D. Posey

We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer. - Brian Wicker

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events. - Sara Sheridan

Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise. - Beverly S. Harless

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. - Edgar Allan Poe

Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. - Chuck Wendig

Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside a story and stop being recognizable, controllable, subject to blackmail. - Fabrizio de André

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. - Jim Harrison

I would like to write my life story, but it seems to write itself. - T.D. Mulhern

And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. - John Green

Most of us are responsible most of the time, or we would not have come this far, it is remembering to not tell the victim story when we are under pressure that makes you a leader. - Malti Bhojwani

Blurred is the picture, To not know what's next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is...A story of our fate! - Somya Kedia

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell. - Tahereh Mafi

Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story. - Jacqui Stedmon

One life, One story. Make it a fairytale. - T.A

If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself? - Miguel Ruiz

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. - Meg Cabot

Love and Friendship, when you have them or lose them they are much like the Greek story of Icarus...You can make you feel like you're soaring above the clouds with happiness when you have them or feel like you are plummeting to the depths of hell with despair when you lose them. - Anonymous

You can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story. - Angela Banks

My short love story gave me lots of memories but i never wanted memories, I wanted you. - Raaz Ojha

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story - Tushar Upreti

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us. - Richard P. Denney

Will you miss him Holly? he asked suddenly. [...] No, she said. I will not miss him. But her eyes told the real story. - Eoin Colfer

The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better. - Phil Lester

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you. - A.R. Voss

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work. - Karl Lagerfeld

It’s not so much about writing the story of Christmas itself, as ingenious as it is. In reality, it’s much more about writing the story of Christmas into the story of life so that it will become the story of life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story. - Johnny Depp

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Life. Life is a show. It's up to you how to make your own story, do your own show and how to live your show you are on. You choose who you need to meet, where you should have your scenes or which scenes you want to do. How awesome your mind can do right? - Diana Rose Morcilla

No two stories are the same. They may seem the same at first glance, but, once you take a closer look, give the story some of your time, you realise its unique qualities. - S. A. Tawks

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless. - Eugene H. Peterson

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

You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story. - Sara Sheridan

I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy

I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like! - Harold Alvin

Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment. - Samuel Johnson

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect. - Joss Whedon

Tell me your story and I will get back your life. - Stephen Richards

Dreams are like holding on to a good book in your hands; you have the full story in your palms, but no matter how much you want to get to the end of the story, you have to go through all the pages first; and you are the writer. - T.H Maloa

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. - A.E. van Vogt

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it. - Angie Sage

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth. - John L'Heureux

Life is a story. - Sagar Gorijala.

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin. - Victor J. Banis

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? - Thomas Sowell

It's difficult from one story to jump in another story, 2 stories are okay for one hour. But more and more characters you start losing the link. (Thriller 2) - Deyth Banger

A story that is more interesting than any novel written by Nicolas Spark; a relationship that has more emotions than any movie made by Karan Johar; and a drama that is more exciting than any TV show...this what we have in our 15 years of marriage and 19 years of togetherness (?)... - Sandhya Jane

The day you start falling in love, with the wrecked homes and broken windows instead of running away from them. You will find a story that fills your soul, behind every burnt door. - Akshay Vasu

Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything. - Lisa Cron

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come. - Amit Kalantri

Whether you attribute it to some mysterious triple package or to your own Horatio Alger story, to succeed in America is, somehow, to be complicit with the idea of America—which means that at some level you’ve made peace with its rather ugly past. - Vijay Iyer

And if our love was a story bookWe would meet on the very first pageThe last chapter would be aboutHow I'm thankful for the life we've made.I Love You... - J.Hampden Jackson

...history is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material - Joshua Wolf Shenk

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you. - J.K. Rowling

Your Life Doesn’t Need A Happily-Ever-After To Be A Damn Good Story - Goodhealthify.com

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned. - Richard P. Denney

Everyone has a story to tell. But the story of your life is only yours and it's uniqueness makes it a real one. - Premchand Shetty

There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different. - Piper Payne

Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning. - Jennifer Weiner

[T]hat they may believe you, you must say it as obscurely as possible, just like that, simply in hints. You must only give them a peep of the truth, just enough to tantalize them. They'll tell a story better than ours, and of course they'll believe themselves more than they would us... - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We shouldn't hide behind anger or anonymity when reliving the past because all that’s happened and all those who belong in our past are part of our story. - Melizena

What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. - Richie Norton

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. - Dorothy Gallagher

Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can. - Kat Unda

If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. - Neil Gaiman

Whenever someone shares a thought that says ‘Follow your heart but take your brain with you’, it just reminds about the childhood story in which a monkey applies his brain to misguide the crocodile by saying that he has kept his heart on the tree. - Anuj Somany

Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story. - Sandy Vaile

It's so much more than a child's story. - on LIFE Today. - Matt Chandler

Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer - Jazz Feylynn

I love books. I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be. - Elizabeth Scott

the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story - David Whyte

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it. - Margaret Mahy

I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing. - P.G. Wodehouse

The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story. - Anthony Liccione

A good presentation = Conviction + Story + Message. Subject does't matter. - Aayush Jain

Life is an endless story of lover and beloved. - Debasish Mridha

The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen. - M.F. Moonzajer

She gave life a meaning. She was art, dressed like a painters pallet, bright and unaware of how goddam beautiful she could be turned into; with the right touch, her smile was the brush and her story was the canvas. - Nikki Rowe

At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end. - Christine Mason Miller

Life is ironic. Some people use their terrible childhood as an excuse of their unfortunate rest of the life… while others create a masterpiece out of their terrible childhood, they create a story loved by the entire world. - Nino Varsimashvili

Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart. - Linda W. Yezak

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version. - Carolyn See

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad. - David Reeves

It's the same old story. A man came like the beautiful wind, left like a destructive storm. - Luan

I know that story, when you start a fight, the main idea is one to survive, one to be the victim and one to be the killer. This explains why FBI, CSI and DIA and other departments are here! - Deyth Banger

Different versions of a true story - Margi Preus

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white. - Tawny Lara

I started writing a story twenty years ago..yet remain unfinished until this time..'.couldn't not think how I end this story because it covers entirely pain, grief, and sorrow... If one story like this, how should it end...? - J.B. AC

Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation is the covenant, the love story of God and man. - Pope Benedict XVI

I share my secrets with the moon, She talks about her love story with the sun & I share all my dreams about you. - Nikki Rowe

People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story? - Martha Louise Hunter

Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers. - Shannon L. Alder

Did you know that Christmas means Christ (Jesus) and mas (a celebration)? The story about Jesus is found in the name of that special day when we celebrate His birth! - Soraya Diase Coffelt

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren’t satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting. - Roman Payne

Be my bedtime story and the thoughts that won't let me fall asleep. Be the conversation that I always have in my head at 3 AM and that beautiful voice that never lets me sleep. - Akshay Vasu

Everything you know is a story. That’s how human consciousness works. - Ed Gray

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. - Emil Ludwig

Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them. - William Carlos Williams

Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it? - Tammy Mentzer Brown

Listen to life story of few people, made me think 'human being are prefer to leave than to be replaced..it take years to recover the pain..once recovered and they accept you, appreciate it...its hard to trust other people twice (Ejump,2016) - Ejump Schiffler

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. - Johnny Rich

A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying. - Aisha Mirza

Basically all the religions,sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end! - Stanley Victor Paskavich

The page is to the story as the seed is to the flower. - Bankei Yotaku

A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. - George Saunders

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place. - J.K. Rowling

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground. - Winston S. Churchill

God is an author, and we are His best story. - Cier Galla

Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends. - Ashly Lorenzana

Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed. - Auliq Ice

We're saying the story doesn't end here, that the air in your lungs is there for a reason. - Jamie Tworkowski

Science fiction is the arena of the not-yet, and every science fiction story has this element of not-yet-ness — usually a bit of technology or a scientific discovery that we don't know about in the real world of the present but that might be a possibility in the future. - Welch Everman

I couldn't suppress a smile. It was inconceivable that I was here, in a place as extraordinary as the fantasy books Sophie loved. Maybe...just maybe those stories are based on a measure of truth. Maybe one day I'd write our story. - Heather L. L. FitzGerald

My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded. - Steve Maraboli

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God. - Stanley Hauerwas

The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page. - T.A. Uner

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark - Stephen Hawking

A story is just a convoluted lie...with some hidden truths. - Christian Clason

Our lives are a novel being written. We are its author. Every action we encounter and every person we meet has a role and a place in our ultimate story. It is in our control to decide the level of how, who and what impacts us and how large a role we decide to assign each. - Mark W. Boyer

In literature, sex is part of the story; in pornography, it's the whole story. - Marty Rubin

There is a story I always tell my students...when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn’t speak English (Only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word exit which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they open leads to success - Pablo

A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality. - George Saunders

Whatever how much you know,if you don’t know, who you are, in what world you are living, or simply where you are, and from where you came from. Because if you do know, that's completely different story. 18.09.11 - VicDo

Every painting tells a story. - A.D. Posey

God is writing His story on the pages of our lives. - Rick Anderson

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling. - Ashly Lorenzana

The greatest writers are the ones not afraid to share their heartbreak and pain for the world to read.They are fearless and freely in sharing their heart to heal other wounds with their story. - Tamyara Brown

The hand of God is wonderfully evident at those times when He pens stories whose lines we ourselves are far too fearful to pen or whose imaginations are far too limited to envision. And I would unashamedly suggest that the Christmas story is that very story. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

We are pieces of ancient Earth, bits of sacred story soaked in intellect and dirt. - Oak Chezar

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012] - John Green

Never compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They're written by scriptwriters, yours is written by God. - Efren Peñaflorida Jr.

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined. - Charles Nodier

Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler."- MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation". - M.J. Mancini

It's not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else's story. - Marty Rubin

What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read. - Caroline Myss

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", great story, great film. - Deyth Banger

Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can. - Toni Sorenson

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. - Anaïs Nin

In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In that crushed voice, there is a strain of truth, as a crushed grape yields a drop of wine. - Patricia Storace

My original intent was to write a horror story about someone who loses his mind and slowly begins to unravel. The story, as I envisioned it, would evoke horror within the context of psychological decay, entropy. - Jupiter Cutter

Life crumples me like paper,Tight, smashed, discarded. But crumpled paper soon unfolds, Opening slowly, sharing what was once hidden inside,Allowing my story to be revealed. - Robert Clifton Storey Jr

The story of the tree is written on every leaf. - Marty Rubin

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. - Isaac Babel

All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story. - Bryan Fuller

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books. - Kathleen Norris

It's not a romance, it's a love story. - Sadie Jones

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell. - M. Kirin

a story is ready when it falls from your face - Steve Aylett

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination. - Karen Lord

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence. - Flannery O'Connor

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand. - George Eliot

Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters. - Aurin Squire

…little people like me have to keep the true story alive. That way, when the revolution ends, and people come looking for the history, we can say, ‘Here it is – we kept it for you. - Mauriel Joslyn

From the point in life when a man/woman is responsible for his/her choices, he/she starts to live a story brought to life by the dreams that have been consciously or subconsciously conceived. - Ufuoma Apoki

There is a untold sad story behind everyone's status 'SINGLE'. - @ hu

A man with a good story is practically a king. - José Eduardo Agualusa

[On Jason Mashak's I Was Trained to See Shadows, in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth, full-bodied, surreal story telling. I like it. - John Bennett

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed. - Edward Gorey

No matter how "normal" people look, living "ordinary" lives, everyone has a story to tell. And may be, just like you, everyone else is a misfit too. - Sanhita Baruah

I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness. - Philip Sington

Do you believe that our stories were written from before that we are but actors performing on the stage called life with neither rehearsals nor retakes, the dialogues of our own and a fleeting audience or are you someone who pens down his own story? - Chirag Tulsiani

Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language — it’s from the Latin word cor, meaning heart — and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart. - Brené Brown

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists. - Sara Sheridan

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. - Chuck Palahniuk

And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now. - Mike Myers

If life is a poem, be the poet. If life is a story, be the author. If life is an adventure, be the hero. To live any other way is a waste of this experience we call life. - Steve Maraboli

With a little heartache; Gone with the time, Are certain memories, Intricately designed.To call & narrate A story of blissful sunshine. - Somya Kedia

Life is not a dream to be dreamed but a story to be written. - Debasish Mridha

I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters. - Alain Robbe-Grillet

The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet. - J. Raymond

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories - J.R.R. Tolkien

I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act. - Roxy Writer

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story. - Rachel Lewis

It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world. - Haruki Murakami

When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity. - A.D. Posey

Our thoughts affect our agreement with reality, our story we tell ourselves. IF you want to change your story, start with your thoughts. - Tony Curl

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

We are Living in the Last Chapters of Life... Find Your Purpose and make it the Best Story possible. - Randa Manning-Johnson

After all answering "mmm" or silence in the story "The story in the Jail", it's shown that isn't the best idea. - Deyth Banger

People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting. - Kat Lehmann

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact. - A.E. van Vogt

Some people are designed to be included in your story but not part of your destiny. - Ane Krstevska

The story becomes clearer with time. - A.D. Posey

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book. - Michael Bassey Johnson

If only they gave all unsolved crime cases television air time, they could be solved within an hour on one of those crime story shows. - Spaz tastic!!

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace. - Katherine Anne Porter

To tell a love story true, a romance writer must bare hearts, souls and bodies. - Chris Lange

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. - Eudora Welty

If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared - you would not remember its taste. - Vinko Vrbanic

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the queen died of grief, that is a story that he was interested. - E.M. Forster

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. - Horace Mann

Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh. - Tim O'Brien

What doesn't kill us makes a good story. - Marty Rubin

No story is complete until it is written. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Age never matters when there is a will to learn more will to learn better.!!Always remember, every success story begins with a START.!!Anyone can desire but there are few who DESERVE.!!Anyone can desire, be the one who DESERVE.!! - Harsh Malik

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time. - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

(...) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience. - Andrzej Wajda

Every crack in the sidewalk has a story to tell. - Marty Rubin

Be the hero of your own story. You are born to turn you mess into a message and the test into a testimony. - Farshad Asl

There were a story scripted on the wall, no words used though, just pictures, memories, from another world. Her happy place. - Stine Saugmann

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye. The story of love is Hello and Goodbye.Until we meet again....... - Jimi Hendrix

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. - Marty Rubin

All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close, they continue. - Jeff Dixon - Storming the Kingdom

Enemies are people who's story you haven't heard, or who's face you haven't seen. - Irene Butter

A great story is impossible to forget. - A.D. Posey

Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat. - C.S. Lewis

Let your story breathe and be what it really is. - A.D. Posey

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss. - Stephen King

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion. - Depak Chopras

When asked for advice on how to write a short story, Carlos Cortés responded, No advice. Every writer has to exorcise his own demons. - Carlos Cortés

I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn into a redemptive story. - Jolina Petersheim

No man can walk out from his own story. - Rango

The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning. - James Plath

The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us. - Madeleine L'Engle

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

EVERYONE’S LIFE IS A STORY TO TELL HOW GOOD YOU MAKE IT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE TO MANY IN THE WORLD IT IS SIMPLE TRY TO WRITE A BETTER STORY OF YOUR SELF STORY OF LIFE IS FULL OF BLANK PAGES HOW YOU FILL IT MAKES WHAT WE ARE ? Dr T.V.Rao MD - Dr.T.V.Rao MD

I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it! - Ashly Lorenzana

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself. - Bill Moyers

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. - John Steinbeck

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm. - Ambrose Bierce

When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

Life is like a story; it unfolds its beauty and tragedy along with your thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. - Ambrose Bierce

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. - Beatrix Potter

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself. - Erin Morgenstern

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams

Only write a story that only you can write. - Alysha Speer

I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story. - Marilynn Halas

You can't summarize a story or a life. The story, the life, is the summary. - Marty Rubin

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary. - John Yau

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. - Mae West

Fill the pages of your life with the exciting story of triumph and tragedy, failure and victory, desire and discovery. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Little Voice is a story where every reader, young or old, can feel inspired by its positive, inspiring and motivating message. - Amanda Bernardo

...our stories are who we are, where we begin. They connect us, tearing down walls and shattering isolation. For story is where hope begins. - Cindee Snider Re

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. - Madeleine L'Engle

I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a journey to another world. - K.M. Randall

Every good love story has a start and a finish. What matters is what happens in the middle. - Suzette R. Hinton

Danger is real. Heartache is real. Fear is not. It’s a story we tell ourselves. - Brianna Wiest

Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world - Sunday Adelaja

In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with an immortal Alice at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles - no matter the imminent peril - these asides of the spirit ... are the highest form of consciousness. - Vladimir Nabokov

Writing is new, relatively speaking. Story telling is ancient. Tell your story first putting aside all other worries. Leave fretting over homonyms, semicolons, and Oxford commas to editors and friends you can be bribe with baking. - Ada Maria Soto

A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with his story, a knowledge shortcut. - Susan J. McIntire

I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all. - Scott Lynch

Where is truth??Somewhere in the story... somewhere around the facts.- There should be a truth some kind of feature, if there isn't... it goes interesting how in the hell is build a story with a truth... It's pretty interesting journey! - Deyth Banger

Social Media begins with a story - your story. - Germany Kent

Once God wrote a story that shook the heaven to the very core.Love was the only language used;You and I were the only characters. - Subhan Zein

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience. - N.T. Wright

You know what Marshall needs to do. He needs to stop being sad. When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead. True story. - Barney Stinson

A story is not a thing. A story is an act. It only exists in the brief moment of its telling. The question you must ask is what a story has the power to do. The truth of something you do is very different from the truth of something you know. - Matthew J. Kirby

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amount to much. - Christopher Morley

No story is ever the whole story. - Marty Rubin

Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.

I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story — I will. - Amy Schumer

Fiction isn't truer than life: it just makes a better story. - Marty Rubin

don't be too much busy on imagining your your life as perfect as the romantic movies, you have your own private story that is being written by the master of the masters. - asma ismaciil

If I'm going to spend a lifetime writing my story, I want it to mean something. - Mari Serebrov

Sometimes it's not just your favorite song. It's your untold story. - Minhal Mehdi

There's a beginning to every story but there's never a story that begins the same. - B.K Laurel

People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think. - C. JoyBell C.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. - Linda Hogan

She got inside me with her story. I could feel her flowing in me and far, faraway I related in parallel. Her smile was a reflection of my own brokenness. It defined buried feelings that I could never ignore. - Robert M. Drake

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world... - Virginia Alison

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life. - Dorothy Parker

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric. - Buffy Andrews

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'no'. - Woody Allen

Every heart has a unique story to tell. We just need a mind to listen. - Debasish Mridha

when they asked me : why you still you use this old photo?my answer : photo? it's not a simple photo, it's a cover of a book that i can remember his story, page by page. - Nabil TOUSSI

There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads. - Elisabeth Eaves

A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never be confused with a plot. You can't preach to kids, and you can't talk down to them, either. It's amazing how they sense condescension. - Patty Smith

How blindly the world reads a man's mien! That I wear a smile does not mean I am in my comfort zone. I am only telling my challenges that I can't be distracted from the beautiful ending of my story. - Bayode Ojo

A great story can change the world. - Stewart Stafford

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. - Jack Kerouac

A well told story can be magic. Let me show you... - JoLynne Valerie

If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last. - John Steinbeck

History is the same story with different costumes. - Stefan Molyneux

Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds - M.F. Moonzajer