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![Story Like Quotes By Maria Semple Story Like Quotes By Maria Semple](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-maria-semple-122531.jpg)
It rarely snows because Antarctica is a desert. An iceberg means it's tens of millions of years old and has calved from a glacier. (This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russia Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.) I saw hundreds of them, cathedrals of ice, rubbed like salt licks; shipwrecks, polished from wear like marble steps at the Vatican; Lincoln Centers capsized and pockmarked; airplane hangars carved by Louise Nevelson; thirty-story buildings, impossibly arched like out of a world's fair; white, yes, but blue, too, every blue on the color wheel, deep like a navy blazer, incandescent like a neon sign, royal like a Frenchman's shirt, powder like Peter Rabbit's cloth coat, these icy monsters roaming the forbidding black. — Maria Semple
![Story Like Quotes By John Boyne Story Like Quotes By John Boyne](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-john-boyne-98614.jpg)
I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story. — John Boyne
![Story Like Quotes By Monsieur Loads Story Like Quotes By Monsieur Loads](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-monsieur-loads-133750.jpg)
They saw me and screamed in terror, not knowing that I was gay and full of rainbows! I let them run for now because soon they would know my story and how nice I really was inside even though I looked like a big scary bear. Maybe they got scared seeing my enormous dong, so I stopped at a clothing store and put on a tuxedo so maybe people would know that I was a class act. — Monsieur Loads
![Story Like Quotes By Dan Wells Story Like Quotes By Dan Wells](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-dan-wells-123514.jpg)
To us he's like... like scenery, in the background of our lives, but for him, he's the main character. He has a life and a job and a whole story. He's a real person. And to him, we're the background scenery. — Dan Wells
![Story Like Quotes By Lewis Buzbee Story Like Quotes By Lewis Buzbee](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-lewis-buzbee-118807.jpg)
A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story. — Lewis Buzbee
![Story Like Quotes By Leila Sales Story Like Quotes By Leila Sales](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-leila-sales-122092.jpg)
Like all stories, the one you are about to read is a love story.
If it wasn't, what would be the point? — Leila Sales
![Story Like Quotes By Sara Cox Story Like Quotes By Sara Cox](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-sara-cox-136099.jpg)
I cry all the time. It's more like when didn't you cry. My friends are like, 'Oh God, she's sobbing again.' I cry if I'm happy, sad, normal ... What really gets me is when I read a sad story about a child in the paper, especially at the moment with my hormones raging. — Sara Cox
![Story Like Quotes By Greg Egan Story Like Quotes By Greg Egan](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-greg-egan-99835.jpg)
I used to think that if you changed from ... valuing one thing to valuing another, it was because you'd learnt something new, understood something better. And it's not like that at all. I just value what I'm stuck with. That's it, that's the whole story. People make a virtue out of necessity. They sanctify what they can't escape. — Greg Egan
![Story Like Quotes By Tyga Story Like Quotes By Tyga](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-tyga-78653.jpg)
Sometimes the music just has to tell the story without you trying to tell the story. It depends on the type of music you want to make. If it makes you feel good and party then you go with that. If it makes you feel like speaking on something real and doing a story then it's the beat just has to have the story. — Tyga
![Story Like Quotes By Nicholas Jarecki Story Like Quotes By Nicholas Jarecki](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-nicholas-jarecki-120740.jpg)
What NYU tried to teach had no relation whatsoever with the reality of what making a film is like. You cannot teach someone aesthetics. What you can do is say, "If you were in this situation and this is the kind of story you wanted to tell, here are a couple of ways you could try to make things work." But they didn't really do that. I did my three years there, and I have said at times that besides my childhood, going to NYU was the single most destructive experience of my life. It took me eight years to recover.
~Tom Dicillo — Nicholas Jarecki
![Story Like Quotes By Raymond Carver Story Like Quotes By Raymond Carver](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-raymond-carver-148370.jpg)
Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the commas back in the same places. I like that way of working on something. I respect that kind of care for what is being done. That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places so that they an best say what they are meant to say. If the words are heavy with the writer's own unbridled emotions, or if they are imprecise and inaccurate for some other reason
if the worlds are in any way blurred
the reader's eyes will slide right over them and nothing will be achieved. Henry James called this sort of hapless writing 'weak specification'. — Raymond Carver
![Story Like Quotes By Cyma Rizwaan Khan Story Like Quotes By Cyma Rizwaan Khan](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-cyma-rizwaan-khan-85590.jpg)
He's been looking at my file. So the question has to be right there on the tip of his tongue right about now, waiting to be spoken. But he keeps up the 'act professional' charade, makes it feel like he sees this kind of thing all the time, but in reality he's having a little fun with it. I'm the story he's going to tell at a bar after making my name anonymous. I'm the case study that's going to become dinner conversation when he takes some rich bitch out next week. He's going to do it to make himself look well-balanced, prove how normal he is in a world full of weirdoes. In short, he's going to look 'normal' at my expense. — Cyma Rizwaan Khan
![Story Like Quotes By Erich Von Stroheim Story Like Quotes By Erich Von Stroheim](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-erich-von-stroheim-94122.jpg)
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance. — Erich Von Stroheim
![Story Like Quotes By Charlie Cox Story Like Quotes By Charlie Cox](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-charlie-cox-122534.jpg)
What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel. — Charlie Cox
![Story Like Quotes By Paul McAuley Story Like Quotes By Paul McAuley](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-paul-mcauley-79750.jpg)
The multiverse, she said, was like an old library whose shelves were packed with books arranged by a cataloguing system that ranked them according to similarity, each book containing within its covers a story that varied only slightly from the stories of its immediate neighbours, but by increasing degrees from those of increasingly distant books. — Paul McAuley
![Story Like Quotes By Margaret Cho Story Like Quotes By Margaret Cho](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-margaret-cho-131858.jpg)
It's like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else's story. — Margaret Cho
![Story Like Quotes By Phil Klay Story Like Quotes By Phil Klay](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-phil-klay-102778.jpg)
There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your face when you get to the end. Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war they can't quite see. Either way, it's the same story. — Phil Klay
![Story Like Quotes By Margaret Peterson Haddix Story Like Quotes By Margaret Peterson Haddix](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-margaret-peterson-haddix-123575.jpg)
Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink? — Margaret Peterson Haddix
![Story Like Quotes By Noam Chomsky Story Like Quotes By Noam Chomsky](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-noam-chomsky-144823.jpg)
You can find things in the traditional religions which are very benign and decent and wonderful and so on, but I mean, the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. The God of the Bible - not only did He order His chosen people to carry out literal genocide - I mean, wipe out every Amalekite to the last man, woman, child, and, you know, donkey and so on, because hundreds of years ago they got in your way when you were trying to cross the desert - not only did He do things like that, but, after all, the God of the Bible was ready to destroy every living creature on earth because some humans irritated Him. That's the story of Noah. I mean, that's beyond genocide - you don't know how to describe this creature. Somebody offended Him, and He was going to destroy every living being on earth? And then He was talked into allowing two of each species to stay alive - that's supposed to be gentle and wonderful. — Noam Chomsky
![Story Like Quotes By Stjepan Sejic Story Like Quotes By Stjepan Sejic](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-stjepan-sejic-127595.jpg)
I don't know what I was looking for . . . I felt empty. I guess. Not hearing from you made it all seem surreal, like you were never there, a dream, a figment of my imagination.
I went to your site that day to . . . I guess, double-check.
I thought. . . maybe you wrote something, a new story . . . a message . . . anything.
I did find a new story . . .
It wasn't about us . . .
And I ended up feeling even emptier. — Stjepan Sejic
![Story Like Quotes By Hayley Kiyoko Story Like Quotes By Hayley Kiyoko](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-hayley-kiyoko-144866.jpg)
I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job. — Hayley Kiyoko
![Story Like Quotes By Jenji Kohan Story Like Quotes By Jenji Kohan](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-jenji-kohan-113111.jpg)
Piper reads the scripts, and we email a lot. Most of her comments are on the more technical side, like "This wouldn't happen. This is against the rules." She's been extremely respectful of our taking her story, and then veering left with it and taking it in its own direction. But, I always want her involved because she's the mother of all this. — Jenji Kohan
![Story Like Quotes By David Grossman Story Like Quotes By David Grossman](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-david-grossman-101212.jpg)
She had not known how to tell him that his loving whispers were always in her ears, like a story she'd been told, the story of a thing she did not deserve. But he understood. He called those thoughts "the baby teeth of a snake," and swore he would rip them out of her, and pledged to prove to her that the opposite was true. And he didn't even have to explain to her what he meant by "the opposite"; she knew it was the opposite of her. — David Grossman
![Story Like Quotes By Anupam Kher Story Like Quotes By Anupam Kher](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-anupam-kher-149322.jpg)
I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated. — Anupam Kher
![Story Like Quotes By Stephen R. Donaldson Story Like Quotes By Stephen R. Donaldson](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-stephen-r-donaldson-128060.jpg)
The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh son of the lord of the seventh Care. She was beautiful from the auburn hair that crowned her head to the tips of her white toes. He was handsome and courageous. She was held prisoner by enchantment. He was a fearless breaker of enchantments.
As in all the fables, they were made for each other. — Stephen R. Donaldson
![Story Like Quotes By Marilyn Grey Story Like Quotes By Marilyn Grey](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-marilyn-grey-127745.jpg)
You have shown me, along with that man over there, that life and love aren't as far apart as we think. They go hand-in-hand, like you and me. You can't have one without the other. Everything around us, inside of us, is love. It's in the birds and the rivers, the newborn baby whimpers, and yes, the passionate kisses we share. Life is a package wrapped up in love. To experience love, we have to open it. Carefully. And cherish every gift we're given. — Marilyn Grey
![Story Like Quotes By Ilya Ehrenburg Story Like Quotes By Ilya Ehrenburg](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-ilya-ehrenburg-117376.jpg)
Memory retains some things and discards others. I remember every detail of some scenes from my childhood and adolescence, by no means the most important ones. I remember some people and have totally forgotten others. Memory is like the headlights of a car at night, which fall now on a tree, now on a hut, now on a man. People (usually writers) who tell the story of their lives as a continuous and detailed whole generally fill in the gaps with conjecture; it is hard to tell where genuine reminiscence ends and the novel begins. — Ilya Ehrenburg
![Story Like Quotes By Margaret Atwood Story Like Quotes By Margaret Atwood](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-margaret-atwood-129274.jpg)
I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish t were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one's life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow. I'm sorry there is so much pain in this story. I'm sorry it's in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it. — Margaret Atwood
![Story Like Quotes By Marjane Satrapi Story Like Quotes By Marjane Satrapi](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-marjane-satrapi-124892.jpg)
I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that. — Marjane Satrapi
![Story Like Quotes By Hank Stuever Story Like Quotes By Hank Stuever](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-hank-stuever-123651.jpg)
While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking Bad and American Horror Story. — Hank Stuever
![Story Like Quotes By Alexis Hall Story Like Quotes By Alexis Hall](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-alexis-hall-122178.jpg)
The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unravelling threads. The brightest parts were a nonsensical madman's weaving. And now every day was a grey stitch, laid down with an outpatient's patience, one following the next following the next, a story in lines, like a railway track to nowhere, telling absolutely nothing. — Alexis Hall
![Story Like Quotes By Laura McHugh Story Like Quotes By Laura McHugh](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-laura-mchugh-118854.jpg)
I'd told the condensed version of my life story so many times over the years that I could recite it without emotion. When I said the words out loud, they felt like they belonged to someone else. — Laura McHugh
![Story Like Quotes By Richard Ford Story Like Quotes By Richard Ford](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-richard-ford-117523.jpg)
It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a diner and share views with him; you wait behind a customer checking into a motel, a friendly man with a winning smile and twinkling hazel eyes, who's happy to fill you in on his life's story and wants you to like him - odd to think this man is cruising around with a loaded pistol, making up his mind about which bank he'll soon rob.' - Richard Ford, Canada — Richard Ford
![Story Like Quotes By Dallas Roberts Story Like Quotes By Dallas Roberts](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-dallas-roberts-112214.jpg)
When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.' — Dallas Roberts
![Story Like Quotes By Pittacus Lore Story Like Quotes By Pittacus Lore](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-pittacus-lore-139162.jpg)
Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you're doing. You could be reaching for a glass in the cupboard or brushing your teeth or listening to someone tell a story, and your mind will just start drifting towards their face, their hair, the way they smell, wondering what they'll wear, and what they'll say the next time they see you. And on top of the constant dream state you're in, your stomach feels like it's connected to a bungee cord, and it bounces and bounces around for hours until it finally lodges itself next to your heart. — Pittacus Lore
![Story Like Quotes By Hannibal Buress Story Like Quotes By Hannibal Buress](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-hannibal-buress-150457.jpg)
I like showing different types of comedy - showing that I could tell a story, or showing that I could do a one-liner, showing I could do stuff about music - so just trying to be versatile and talking about different topics. — Hannibal Buress
![Story Like Quotes By Charles De Lint Story Like Quotes By Charles De Lint](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-charles-de-lint-148018.jpg)
I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy any kind of story. I also want something with a definitive plot - you know, beginning, middle and end--that has forward motion. I don't like series books that leave you hanging after you've finished a book and in my own fiction I try to make sure that there's always an entry point for those who are new to the book as well as long-time readers. — Charles De Lint
![Story Like Quotes By Arundhati Roy Story Like Quotes By Arundhati Roy](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-arundhati-roy-147964.jpg)
It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do. — Arundhati Roy
![Story Like Quotes By Terry Farish Story Like Quotes By Terry Farish](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-terry-farish-146583.jpg)
The story rolls along like drumbeats from house to house. — Terry Farish
![Story Like Quotes By Erica Cameron Story Like Quotes By Erica Cameron](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-erica-cameron-146386.jpg)
I look down, trying to see my skin like she does. Underneath the soft, cerulean-blue glow, there are so many lines it looks like a roadmap. I'm so used to the ruts and puffy scars crisscrossing my arms that I forget about them sometimes. They're the legacy of the questionable talent that's kept me alive as often as it's gotten me in trouble.
The story of my life is written in the wounds on my skin. I just wish other people could read the story, too. It'd save me a lot of explaining. — Erica Cameron
![Story Like Quotes By Upasana Banerjee Story Like Quotes By Upasana Banerjee](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-upasana-banerjee-144311.jpg)
Some stories are sudden like an inhale, some are overcoming like the tides, some, we name mistake, some are called lessons. Stories ... tragic, romantic, comedy. We make them, they make us . — Upasana Banerjee
![Story Like Quotes By Mark Wilkins Story Like Quotes By Mark Wilkins](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-mark-wilkins-142604.jpg)
From "I Exist" in Every Lyric Tells A Story.
His mother thought he was a loser
His father thought he was a bum
Plenty of times he felt like running
But he really had nowhere to run
He fought it with everything he had
With his brains and with his fists
And whenever anyone told him he was nobody
He'd tell himself "I exist — Mark Wilkins
![Story Like Quotes By Madeleine L'Engle Story Like Quotes By Madeleine L'Engle](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-madeleine-lengle-141435.jpg)
So perhaps the reason I shuddered at the idea of writing something about 'Christian art' is that to paint a picture or to write a story or to compose a song is an incarnational activity. The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birth-giver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary, who, when the angel told her that she was to bear the Messiah, was obedient to the command. Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius or something very small, comes to the artist and says 'Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me.' And the artist either says 'My soul doth magnify the Lord' and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessicarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary. — Madeleine L'Engle
![Story Like Quotes By Christopher Morley Story Like Quotes By Christopher Morley](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-christopher-morley-140247.jpg)
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
![Story Like Quotes By Alice Dreger Story Like Quotes By Alice Dreger](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-alice-dreger-129400.jpg)
My mother has told so many times the unbelievable story of how, as a toddler, I would demand raw onions and eat them like apples, I think that, at this juncture, it is a story that just has to be believed. — Alice Dreger
![Story Like Quotes By Rachel Held Evans Story Like Quotes By Rachel Held Evans](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-rachel-held-evans-138055.jpg)
Like Nadia, I wrestled with the evangelical tradition in which I was raised, often ungracefully. At times I've tried to wring the waters of my first baptism out of my clothes, shake them out of my hair, and ask for a do-over in some other community where they ordain women, vote for Democrats, and believe in evolution. But Jesus has this odd habit of allowing ordinary, screwed-up people to introduce him, and so it was ordinary, screwed-up people who first told me I was a beloved child of God, who first called me a Christian. I don't know where my story of faith will take me, but it will always begin here. That much can never change. — Rachel Held Evans
![Story Like Quotes By Nikki Reed Story Like Quotes By Nikki Reed](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-nikki-reed-136659.jpg)
I like for jewelry to tell a story and to be able to talk about what I'm wearing. That's more important to me than a name, brand, or label. — Nikki Reed
![Story Like Quotes By Mark Haddon Story Like Quotes By Mark Haddon](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-mark-haddon-134780.jpg)
My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print! — Mark Haddon
![Story Like Quotes By Virginia Woolf Story Like Quotes By Virginia Woolf](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-virginia-woolf-133907.jpg)
Immediately, Mrs. Ramsay seemed to fold herself together, one petal closed in another, and the whole fabric fell in exhaustion upon itself, so that she had only strength enough to move her finger, in exquisite abandonment to exhaustion, across the page of Grimm's fairy story, while there throbbed through her, like the pulse in a spring which has expanded to its full width and now gently ceases to beat, the rapture of successful creation. — Virginia Woolf
![Story Like Quotes By James MacDonald Story Like Quotes By James MacDonald](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-james-macdonald-130216.jpg)
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
![Story Like Quotes By Eric Idle Story Like Quotes By Eric Idle](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-eric-idle-129919.jpg)
I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun. — Eric Idle
![Story Like Quotes By Lorraine Heath Story Like Quotes By Lorraine Heath](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-lorraine-heath-129658.jpg)
My friendship with Jack remains strained. I want to believe that he was duped, but he has always been far too clever to fall for another man's ruse. So we have added yet one more thing to our relationship about which we never speak. Sometimes I think we will break beneath the weight of it, but on those occasions I have but to look at my wife in order to find the strength to carry on. I am determined to be worthy of her and that requires that I be a far stronger and better man than I had ever planned to be.
We see Frannie from time to time, not as often as we'd like unfortunately. She did eventually marry, but that is her story to tell.
Dear Frannie, darling Frannie.
She shall always remain the love of my youth, the one for whom I sold my soul to the devil. But Catherine, my beloved Catherine, shall always be the center of my heart, the one who, in the final hour, would not let the devil have me. — Lorraine Heath
![Story Like Quotes By Hilary Mantel Story Like Quotes By Hilary Mantel](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-hilary-mantel-129551.jpg)
You come to this place, mid-life. You don't know how you got here, but suddenly you're staring fifty in the face. When you turn and look back down the years, you glimpse the ghosts of other lives you might have led; all houses are haunted. The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners. You think of the children you might have had but didn't. When the midwife says, 'It's a boy,' where does the girl go? When you think you're pregnant, and you're not, what happens to the child that has already formed in your mind? You keep it filed in a drawer of your consciousness, like a short story that never worked after the opening lines. — Hilary Mantel
![Story Like Quotes By John Gardner Story Like Quotes By John Gardner](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-john-gardner-129451.jpg)
Fiction, like sculpture or painting, begins with a rough
sketch. One gets down the characters and their behavior any
way one can, knowing the sentences will have to be revised,knowing the characters' actions may change. It makes no difference
how clumsy the sketch is - sketches are not supposed
to be polished and elegant. All that matters is that, going over
and over the sketch as if one had all eternity for finishing one's
story, one improves now this sentence, now that, noticing
what changes the new sentences urge, and in the process one
gets the characters and their behavior clearer in one's head,
gradually discovering deeper and deeper implications of the
characters' problems and hopes. — John Gardner
![Story Like Quotes By Donald Ray Pollock Story Like Quotes By Donald Ray Pollock](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-donald-ray-pollock-79757.jpg)
I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that. — Donald Ray Pollock
![Story Like Quotes By Deyth Banger Story Like Quotes By Deyth Banger](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-deyth-banger-97267.jpg)
It's going to go little random, probably I look like an idiot, I can't make difference between a normal person smile and person who likes me, but still... that's another story which probably I am going to save it for later, if I try to memorize it. — Deyth Banger
![Story Like Quotes By Dan Fogelman Story Like Quotes By Dan Fogelman](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-dan-fogelman-93939.jpg)
I told my mom I was going to do a movie about a son who hears a story about his mom and takes her on a cross-country road trip, and I wanted to actually take the trip with my mom to see what it would be like to drive cross-country with your mom. — Dan Fogelman
![Story Like Quotes By Chris Colfer Story Like Quotes By Chris Colfer](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-chris-colfer-93284.jpg)
What do you suppose 'Jack and the Beanstalk' is about?" she asked. Conner contemplated a moment and slyly grinned. "Bad beans can cause more than indigestion," he answered, laughing hysterically to himself. Alex pursed her lips to hide a smile. "What do you think the lesson of 'Little Red Riding Hood' is?" she asked him. "Do you think she should have just mailed her grandmother the gift basket?" "Now you're thinking!" he said. "Although, I've always felt sorry for Little Red Riding Hood. It's obvious her parents didn't like her very much." "Why do you say that?" Alex asked, wondering how he could have possibly construed that from the story. "Who sends their young daughter into a dark and wolf-occupied forest carrying freshly baked food and wearing a bright jacket?" Conner asked. "They were practically asking for a wolf to eat her! She must have annoyed the heck out of them!" Alex held back laughter with all her might but, to Conner's delight, she let a quiet chuckle slip. "I — Chris Colfer
![Story Like Quotes By Molly Phinney Baskette Story Like Quotes By Molly Phinney Baskette](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-molly-phinney-baskette-93072.jpg)
Our governor in Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, once told a story about his grandma. She said, "Don't call people 'the poor.' Call people broke. Broke is temporary." I try not to say "the poor" because it sounds like a sentence, like I'm putting people in a box, far away from those of us who can make ends meet. But someone who is broke, on the other hand, is a peer. — Molly Phinney Baskette
![Story Like Quotes By Katherine Applegate Story Like Quotes By Katherine Applegate](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-katherine-applegate-89236.jpg)
Someday, if we won, if humanity survived, we'd be in the history books. Me and Jake and Rachel and Cassie and Tobias and Ax. They'd be household names, like generals from World War II or the Civil War. Patton and Eisenhower, Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee. Kids would study us in school. Bored, probably.
And then the teacher would tell the story of Marco. I'd be a part of history. What I was about to do. Some kid would laugh. Some kid would say, "Cold, man. That was really cold."
I had to do it, kid. It was a war. It's the whole point, you stupid, smug, smirking little jerk! Don't you get it?
It was the whole point. We hurt the innocent in order to stop the evil. Innocent Hork-Bajir. Innocent Taxxons. Innocent human-Controllers. How else to stop the Yeerks? How else to win?
No choice, you punk. We did what we had to do.
"Cold, man. The Marco dude? He was just cold. — Katherine Applegate
![Story Like Quotes By John Corbett Story Like Quotes By John Corbett](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-john-corbett-88800.jpg)
In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already. — John Corbett
![Story Like Quotes By Georges Perec Story Like Quotes By Georges Perec](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-georges-perec-88266.jpg)
Like the librarians of Babel in Borges's story, who are looking for the book that will provide them with the key to all the others, we oscillate between the illusion of perfection and the vertigo of the unattainable. In the name of completeness, we would like to believe that a unique order exists that would enable us to accede in knowledge all in one go; in the name of the unattainable, we would like to think that order and disorder are in fact the same word, denoting pure chance.
It's possible also that both are decoys, illusions intended to disguise the erosion of both books and systems. It is no bad thing in any case that between the two our bookshelves should serve from time to time as joggers of the memory, as cat-rests and as lumber-rooms. — Georges Perec
![Story Like Quotes By Ilsa J. Bick Story Like Quotes By Ilsa J. Bick](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-ilsa-j-bick-88113.jpg)
So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth.
Right, like the two are the same thing. — Ilsa J. Bick
![Story Like Quotes By Kevin Henkes Story Like Quotes By Kevin Henkes](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-kevin-henkes-80850.jpg)
When I'm writing, I'm creating the story and its character with words. I'm thinking about what the pictures will be like, but I never begin to sketch. The pictures are all in my head. — Kevin Henkes
![Story Like Quotes By Adrienne Rich Story Like Quotes By Adrienne Rich](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-adrienne-rich-80772.jpg)
No one's fated or doomed to love anyone.
The accidents happen, we're not heroines,
they happen in our lives like car crashes,
books that change us, neighborhoods
we move into and come to love.
Tristan and Isolde is scarcely the story,
women at least should know the difference
between love and death. No poison cup,
no penance. Merely a notion that the tape-recorder
should have caught some ghost of us: that tape-recorder
not merely played but should have listened to us,
and could instruct those after us:
this we were, this is how we tried to love,
and these are the forces they had ranged against us,
and these are the forces we had ranged within us,
within us and against us, against us and within us. — Adrienne Rich
![Story Like Quotes By Habib Umar Bin Hafiz Story Like Quotes By Habib Umar Bin Hafiz](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-habib-umar-bin-hafiz-97463.jpg)
A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz
![Story Like Quotes By Victoria Hislop Story Like Quotes By Victoria Hislop](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-victoria-hislop-78438.jpg)
Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed by the pictures that were missing or never even taken at all, not the ones that had been so carefully framed or packed away neatly in an envelope. — Victoria Hislop
![Story Like Quotes By James M. Kouzes Story Like Quotes By James M. Kouzes](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-james-m-kouzes-78357.jpg)
The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history. — James M. Kouzes
![Story Like Quotes By Olivia Munn Story Like Quotes By Olivia Munn](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-olivia-munn-78253.jpg)
I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story. It's like knowing how the sausage is made. — Olivia Munn
![Story Like Quotes By Faith Tilley Johnson Story Like Quotes By Faith Tilley Johnson](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-faith-tilley-johnson-77892.jpg)
Starting a new chapter is much like composing the perfect photograph. You must ensure the proper components are there. You may throw out the extra, but with out the key elements the story goes untold. — Faith Tilley Johnson
![Story Like Quotes By Steven Spielberg Story Like Quotes By Steven Spielberg](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-steven-spielberg-77579.jpg)
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story. — Steven Spielberg
![Story Like Quotes By Lee Ann Womack Story Like Quotes By Lee Ann Womack](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-lee-ann-womack-77474.jpg)
It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark Wright's producing, all of the players that played on it, me singing, the marketing department, the promotion department at the label ... It takes a lot of people to make a hit like that. — Lee Ann Womack
![Story Like Quotes By D.G. Hart Story Like Quotes By D.G. Hart](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-d-g-hart-76801.jpg)
From the vantage of a mid-1970's consensus that regarded the United States as having entered a post-Protestant era, the rise of a Religious Right dominated not only by Protestants but by fundamentalists was not the way the story was supposed to go. People like Jerry Falwell looked like party crashers who, rather than slikinking from bar to buffet in hopes of going unnoticed, demanded that the vegetarian, alcohol-imbibing hosts serve meat and tell the bartender to go home. — D.G. Hart
![Story Like Quotes By Natalie Babbitt Story Like Quotes By Natalie Babbitt](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-natalie-babbitt-76800.jpg)
Wordy! I enjoy description - I like words, and words are the tools that writers use, just like paint is the tool that artists use. I think words are fun, and I have a lot of fun using them. I know that a lot of kids think my stories start very slowly, and I expect that's true. But that's the way I like to read stories, so when I'm writing them I can do what I want! I say that to kids in schools, and they are very generous - they say, That's true. You can do what you want. It's your story. — Natalie Babbitt
![Story Like Quotes By Anthony Burgess Story Like Quotes By Anthony Burgess](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-anthony-burgess-75805.jpg)
They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like it, and I wouldn't ever interfere with their pleasures, and so of the other shop. And I was patronizing the other shop. More, badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. And is not our modern history, my brothers, the story of the brave malenky selves fighting these big machines? — Anthony Burgess
![Story Like Quotes By Mark Waters Story Like Quotes By Mark Waters](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-mark-waters-75678.jpg)
People need to be given enough so that they feel like they're not missing something. There's a thing that you have when you watch a movie where, if you feel like you're not following and you're going to get tested on it later, you're going to get disengaged. So, you have to give people just enough information, so that they're able to keep up with the story. — Mark Waters
![Story Like Quotes By Conrad Ricamora Story Like Quotes By Conrad Ricamora](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-conrad-ricamora-106822.jpg)
The mistake people that want to be actors make is to move to New York or L.A. right away. But it's like ... go act somewhere first. Be an actor. A story is a story, and an audience is an audience, no matter where you're doing it. — Conrad Ricamora
![Story Like Quotes By Walter De La Mare Story Like Quotes By Walter De La Mare](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-walter-de-la-mare-115631.jpg)
Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn, scrutinize the little intent company sitting over his story around the lamp at the further end of the table; squatting like little children with their twigs and pins, fishing for wonders on the brink of the unknown. — Walter De La Mare
![Story Like Quotes By Tove Jansson Story Like Quotes By Tove Jansson](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-tove-jansson-114704.jpg)
Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward. — Tove Jansson
![Story Like Quotes By Anonymous Story Like Quotes By Anonymous](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-anonymous-113786.jpg)
Towns like Launceston, Longford, Evandale and other current-day hubs of poppy production in north and central Tasmania had been settled by tens of thousands of British and Irish convicts transported here in the early 19th century as a cheap alternative to prisons in the British Isles. They were followed by thousands of so-called free settlers, who built communities with main streets still lined by two- and three-story pink sandstone buildings. — Anonymous
![Story Like Quotes By Catherine Anderson Story Like Quotes By Catherine Anderson](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-catherine-anderson-75142.jpg)
We are like guests on this Earth, either we get to be nice or we get to be bad — Catherine Anderson
![Story Like Quotes By Rebecca Solnit Story Like Quotes By Rebecca Solnit](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-rebecca-solnit-111750.jpg)
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other. — Rebecca Solnit
![Story Like Quotes By Laini Taylor Story Like Quotes By Laini Taylor](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-laini-taylor-110963.jpg)
Until a few days ago, humans had been little more than legend to him, and now here he was in their world. It was like stepping into the pages of a book
a book alive with color and fragrance, filth and chaos
and the blue-haired girl moved through it all like a fairy through a story, the light treating her differently than it did others, the air seemed to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place was a story about her. — Laini Taylor
![Story Like Quotes By Ali Smith Story Like Quotes By Ali Smith](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-ali-smith-110130.jpg)
He was clearly in love with Amber too, and this time it wasn't the usual water off the back of the duck. Instead, the duck, wounded by a hunter and bewildered because half its head had been shot way, and was still tottering about on its webby feet by the side of the pond. From the one side it looked like a duck usually looks. From the other, it was a different story. — Ali Smith
![Story Like Quotes By Dee Tenorio Story Like Quotes By Dee Tenorio](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-dee-tenorio-108921.jpg)
She eyed him but said nothing. Why did he always have to pull out the truth?
"It's not like I haven't seen you pee before. Go ahead."
"Eww, you have not!"
"Yup, you were six and you had to go and there was no one else to take you."
Oh God ... she'd been so humiliated she must have blanked it from her memory. — Dee Tenorio
![Story Like Quotes By Robert Pattinson Story Like Quotes By Robert Pattinson](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-robert-pattinson-108795.jpg)
I like the story about me being pregnant. It was in some Australian magazine, on the front page! I was like, 'Wow, that's just [insane].' And it's not even ironic. I don't even think the article [tried to justify it]; it was just a headline. The article was just like, nothing. — Robert Pattinson
![Story Like Quotes By Karen Fairchild Story Like Quotes By Karen Fairchild](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-karen-fairchild-107809.jpg)
I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece. — Karen Fairchild
![Story Like Quotes By Amit Kalantri Story Like Quotes By Amit Kalantri](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-amit-kalantri-115709.jpg)
Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Where are Angels like you are from? — Amit Kalantri
![Story Like Quotes By Dorothy Salisbury Davis Story Like Quotes By Dorothy Salisbury Davis](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-dorothy-salisbury-davis-105795.jpg)
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis
![Story Like Quotes By Colson Whitehead Story Like Quotes By Colson Whitehead](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-colson-whitehead-105204.jpg)
Spoiler: I didn't win the Main Event. You had suspicions, you say? For one thing, the subtitle of this book would be "The Amazing Life-Affirming Story of an Unremarkable Jerk Who Won the World Series of Poker!" instead of having the word "Death" in it. For another, do these sound like the words of a motherfucker who won a million goddamn dollars? — Colson Whitehead
![Story Like Quotes By L.M. Montgomery Story Like Quotes By L.M. Montgomery](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-l-m-montgomery-103743.jpg)
The Story Girl was written in 1910 and published in 1911. It was the last book I wrote in my old home by the gable window where I had spent so many happy hours of creation. It is my own favourite among my books, the one that gave me the greatest pleasure to write, the one whose characters and landscape seem to me most real. All the children in the book are purely imaginary. The old "King Orchard" was a compound of our old orchard in Cavendish and the orchard at Park Corner. "Peg Bowen" was suggested by a half-witted, gypsy-like personage who roamed at large for many years over the Island and was the terror of my childhood. — L.M. Montgomery
![Story Like Quotes By Alexander Gordon Smith Story Like Quotes By Alexander Gordon Smith](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-alexander-gordon-smith-103608.jpg)
You don't see heroism, humanity and hope like you do in a horror story. Horror celebrates the kind of friendship that keeps you standing shoulder to shoulder with someone even when the world is falling apart around you. — Alexander Gordon Smith
![Story Like Quotes By Nadia Bolz-Weber Story Like Quotes By Nadia Bolz-Weber](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-nadia-bolz-weber-102670.jpg)
The image of God I was raised with was this: God is an angry bastard with a killer surveillance system who had to send his little boy (and he only had one) to suffer and die because I was bad. But the good news was that if I believed this story and then tried really hard to be good, when I died I would go to heaven, where I would live in a golden gated community with God and all the other people who believed and did the same things as I did ... this type of thinking portrays God as just as mean and selfish as we are, which feels like it has a lot more to do with our own greed and spite than it has to do with God. — Nadia Bolz-Weber
![Story Like Quotes By Amy Leach Story Like Quotes By Amy Leach](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-amy-leach-102488.jpg)
Is this true on smaller scales too? Apart from a visible fragment is everybody largely invisible - invisible like the magic part of magic mushrooms and the song part of songbirds? Maybe the balance between one's visibility and invisibility is like the balance between the salt and the water in the blood, delicate and critical, as becomes obvious when the balance deteriorates: people with an invisibility deficiency seem like paper dolls, subject to crumple. Other people have the opposite problem: they cannot be seen building a bicycle, nor making lentil soup, nor knitting a green wool sweater by candlelight; neither can you look down from your second-story window in the morning and see them tromping off through the snow — Amy Leach
![Story Like Quotes By Robert B. Parker Story Like Quotes By Robert B. Parker](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-robert-b-parker-101018.jpg)
I always loved it when I had a story to tell her, because her attention was complete and felt like sunlight. — Robert B. Parker
![Story Like Quotes By Derek Bailey Story Like Quotes By Derek Bailey](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-derek-bailey-100013.jpg)
In so far as I listen with interest to a record, it's usually to figure out how it was arrived at. The musical end product is where interest starts to flag. It's a bit like jigsaw puzzles. Emptied out of the box, there's a heap of pieces, all shapes, sizes and colours, in themselves attractive and could add up to anything
intriguing. Figuring out how to put them together can be interesting, but what you finish up with as often as not is a picture of unsurpassed banality. Music's like that."
From "Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation" by Ben Watson, Verso, London, 2004, p. 440. — Derek Bailey
![Story Like Quotes By Shane Claiborne Story Like Quotes By Shane Claiborne](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-shane-claiborne-99386.jpg)
You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut. — Shane Claiborne
![Story Like Quotes By George Eliot Story Like Quotes By George Eliot](https://quotessayings.net/pics/story-like-quote-by-george-eliot-99163.jpg)
For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness; for perhaps their ardour in generous unpaid toil cooled as imperceptibly as the ardour of other youthful loves, till one day their earlier self walked like a ghost in its old home and made the new furniture ghastly. — George Eliot