#story

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds."

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

"The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart."

"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."

"Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is."

"But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world."

"He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"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."

"You are never too old to become younger!"

"The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations."

"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."

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

"Stories are verbal acts of hospitality."

"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

"The truth of the story lies in the details."

"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]"

"I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring."

"He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close."

"Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story."