Quotes by Stories There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that. Alice Munro stories writing trying A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you. Alice Munro sturdy shelter stories The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. Alice Munro ive-learned stories way I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else. Alice Munro ironic stories country You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing. Alice Munro crafts stories writing A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows. Alice Munro stories house world Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. Alice Sebold bones pain stories He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon Alice Sebold salmon kissing stories One of my favorite things in watching an actor is feeling, The story is safe in your hands. I can lean back and trust you with this. Alison Pill stories feelings hands The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own. Alistair Begg lines stories people I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. Alistair MacLeod stories writing thinking We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust. Alister E. McGrath decision stories needs Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them. Allan Gurganus sugar stories people I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings. Allen Sapp white-man stories men My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters. Allison Pearson husband stories doe It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head. Ally Carter shooting stories feet In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :) Ally Carter chapters nice stories Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself? Ally Condie falling-in-love persons stories In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most. Ally Condie real stories people I've heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it now, and that's really cool. Allyson Felix girl stories want «678910111213141516»