“A story unwritten is without beginning or end. But in its potential lies another story; and in the heartbeat before pen meets page, both stories exist at once, reflecting endless permutations of the other, before one of them disappears forever.”
“I m Tiny And My Reach Is Limited. I Can Give YOU Only What I Have And Surely When I Give, I Don t Keep Anything For Me. To YOU, It s Nothing Probably As YOU ve Got Everything. My Everything Would Be Unnoticed. It Seems Like A Rain Drop To The Ocean .... (From The Romantic Story Reflection of The Rainbow )....”
“they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...”
“With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ, any person who could tell a story of an apparition, or of a man s walking, could have made such books; for the story is most wretchedly told.”
“In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called meddah. They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each new person in the story, the meddah would change his voice, impersonating that character. Everybody could go and listen, you know ordinary people, even the sultan, Muslims and non-Muslims. Stories cut across all boundaries. Like The Tales of Nasreddin Hodja, which were very popular throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans and Asia. Today, stories continue to transcend borders”
“What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.”
“Willard Gibbs is the type of the imagination at work in the world. His story is that of an opening up which has had its effect on our lives and our thinking; and, it seems to me, it is the emblem of the naked imagination —which is called abstract and impractical, but whose discoveries can be used by anyone who is interested, in whatever field — an imagination which for me, more than that of any other figure in American thought, any poet, or political, or religious figure, stands for imagination at its essential points.”
“For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.”
“Your audience is your adversary. If you don t have one get one - imagine it. Imagine it now. To whom is your story addressed and why? Audience is always a creative act of the imagination. You can t tell your story effectively and leave it out. It must be alive in you, vividly alive. It is in conflict with everything that is false in what you have written. If it is an audience worthy of your talent and potential, it won t let you slide by the lies, the laziness, the shortcuts. If you don t take audience seriously, you can be sure it will return the favor.”
“A story about the Jack Spratts of medicine [was] told recently by Dr. Charles H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin. He had been invited to a conference of heart specialists in North America. On the eve of the meeting, out of respect for the fat-clogs-the-arteries theory, the delegates sat down to a special banquet served without fats. It was unpalatable but they all ate it as a duty. Next morning Best looked round the breakfast room and saw these same specialists—all in the 40-60 year old, coronary age group—happily tucking into eggs, bacon, buttered toast and coffee with cream.”
“When you write a story, don t just write it - live it; When putting words into the mouth of a protagonist (or any character) imagine yourself saying them and while writing about the reaction of the listener, write it the way you would react. Let the conversations not be meant merely to be read but felt as well. If you do not feel what you write; how can you expect the readers to feel it?”
“Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can.”
“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 .”
“Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.”
“For grief has always been so dear to you that you would make me writhing in pain in the brothel of your imaginations than to be playing with a bunch of balloons in the yard where I should have been. And may be that s why, you d rather talk to me about this, than to write a story about me where I could live happily.”
“No one like the Incomplete Stories, so does the God :-)”
“No one likes incomplete story, so does the God :-)”