“A story just isn t a story without a dragon.”
“Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves.”
“Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.”
“Why wait until I was dead, for someone else to tell my story?”
“Consider what stuff history is made of, — that for the most part it is merely a story agreed on by posterity.”
“I want to be the heroine of my story. And you, too, Elsey. You, too, be the heroine. Not the victim. Understand? Because the heroine is the one who owns the story.”
“If you are too much interested in the story of others, then your own story will be orphaned!”
“Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience. American author Joan Didion postulated that we tell ourselves stories in order to live. Conceivably a personal crisis propels a person to delve into creating a guiding philosophy for living with reduced mental and emotional turmoil. Alternatively, perhaps we tell stories to examine, explain, and justify our failures.”
“A good story is both one hundred percent true and one hundred percent false. A good story uses small lies to take a stab at piercing larger truths. An overstatement and understatement are part of writer’s craft; each standing alone is an untruth. An understatement might be used as an attempt at humor, just as an overstatement might be used to probe a truth that lies beyond the exact retelling of who, what, when, and where style employed in police report writing. Even writing biography, autobiography, memoir, and personal essays that studiously and relentless adheres to established facts can distort the truth. Faithful adherence to stringing rote facts together omits many aspects of both the subject and the operable social, cultural, and political environment that stages human interaction, contest, conflict, drama, and strife.”
“My outer shell may reveal trauma, but my inner self, my soul, sings for my Savior--for what He did not withhold, for the grit through which my story shines, for my all-rightness despite what was clearly not right . . . over and over again.”
“New families, like young nations after violent wars of independence or social revolutions, perhaps need to anchor their beginnings in a symbolic moment and nail that instant in time.”
“Well, I’m afraid you’ll think it so prosy. We always begin at the abstract end of things, and you can’t begin this story anywhere else.”
“The writer visualizes the story before he even writes it.”
“You only know someone when you search your story, then, doubts disappear.”
“Tell a story to one of your mates. Let that story circulate round ten other people before getting back to you. When the story gets back to you, will it be the same? No. Now you understand the concept of society.”
“Together we created a story, alone I wrote a book!”
“Remember, what doesn t kill you, makes a great story.”