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 can imagine a child in California wishing to give away what he’s just seen- a wild animal fleeing though creosote cover in the desert, casting a bright-eyed backward glance or three lines of overheard conversation that seem to contain everything we need understand to repair the gaping rift between body and soul. I look back at that boy turning in glee beneath his pigeons and know it can take a lifetime to convey what you mean, to find the opening. You watch, you set it down. Then you try again.
Barry LopezStichwörter: writing stories community
There's always more to the story, Catriona," She replied. "That's the wonderful thing about stories.
Heather Vogel FrederickStichwörter: stories
Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the night story, the annihilation story, the last hours story. These situations, and variations on them, and others like them, are paradigms of our position in the world as Woolrich sees it. His mastery of suspense, his genius (like that of his spiritual brother Alfred Hitchcock) for keeping us on the edge of our seats and gasping with fright, stems not only from the nightmarish situations he conjured up but from his prose, which is compulsively readable, cinematically vivid, high-strung almost to the point of hysteria, forcing us into the skins of the hunted and doomed where we live their agonies and die with them a thousand small deaths.
Francis M. Nevins Jr.Stichwörter: writing writers stories story storytelling suspense hysteria hunted alfred-hitchcock doomed cornell-woolrich nightmarish
Without stories, we’d have even more trouble recognizing what’s real.
Amy NeftzgerStichwörter: truth reality stories fiction fables real tales
Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.
Shannon L. AlderStichwörter: success inspiration perspective stories decisions service winning motivation life-lessons games choices helping-others altruism experiences life-missions following-christ
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: imagination stories storytelling fairy-tales
I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tangled up in everybody else's?
Charles de LintStichwörter: world people stories connected
Widge can see the past." Poppet says suddenly. "That's why his stories are so good."
"The past is easier," Widget says. "It's already there."
"In the stars?" Bailey asks.
"No." Widget says. "On people. The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it's still there, the events and t hings that pushed you to where you are now.
Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.
Lauren OliverStichwörter: lies stories believe
Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been attempting to slip something past him. He had had the same disgust with the Professor Challenger stories, when the bull-necked old professor became a convert to Spiritualistm; it was not that Richard had any problems believing in ghosts - Richard believed, with no problems or contradictions, in everything - but Conan Doyle was preaching, and it showed through the words. Richard was young, and innoncent in his fashion, and believed that authors should be trusted, and that there should be nothing hidden beneath the surface of a story.
Neil GaimanStichwörter: writing christianity stories authors spiritualism narnia arthur-conan-doyle professor-challenger
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