Story Starters Quotes & Sayings

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! — David Mitchell

There's a lot of dirty theology out there, the religious counterpart to dirty politics and dirty business, I suppose. You might call it spiritual pornography - a kind of for-profit exploitative nakedness. It's found in many of the same places as physical pornography (the Internet and cable TV for starters), and it promises similar things: instant intimacy, fantasy and make-believe, private voyeurism and vicarious experience, communion without commitment. That's certainly not what we're after in these pages. No, we're after a lost treasure as old as the story of the Garden of Eden: the ... — Brian D. McLaren

I had high hopes for that girl, but too much of that sort of nonsense and I think her intelligence will explosively dismantle — Iain M. Banks

A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you can get your hands on so you can become familiar with different forms of writing: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism. That's very important. And also keep a journal. Not so much, because it's good writing practice. Although it is, but more because it's a wonderful source of story starters. — Ann M. Martin

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. — Paracelsus

You can fulfill your whole life in one hour of inner seeing. — John De Ruiter

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. — Francis Bacon

I understand that we see the world differently and neither is wrong. — Krista Ritchie

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed ... magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory. — Neil Armstrong

Miracles do happen. — Nicholas Sparks

Beliefs converge and become something new all the time. — Libba Bray