What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either, but it was a reassuring story: that the dead were not entirely dead...
(pl. ) of Story
Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a writer sets down can help or harm a community of which he or she is a part. When I write I c...
All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell.
Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.
Some stories end in despair, some begin there
The stories we are destined to tell find us.
A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
There's magic in stories, magic in hope, and magic in coming together. I have learnt from people's stories, been inspired by their hope, and been strengthened by their coming together.
I think that's just a story.""But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true.
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.
A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.
Sometimes broken shoes and tattered clothes can tell us beautiful stories!
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.
Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stories, simple stories dealing with the stuff of life...
Stories are light.
I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.