Time Quote by Anonymous

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look…

— Graham Greene

“A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.”

— John L'Heureux

“Where a story ends is nothing more than a snapshot in time, a brief flash of emotion, a pause. How and if it continues…

— Hugh Howey

“We know how it ends practically before it starts. That´s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real…

— Anne Bishop

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.”

— Joan Silber

“But it’s hard to say where experience ends and imagination begins. The story is by no means a true story. But the feelings in…

— Arundhati Roy

“True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they…

— Siri Hustvedt

“You need to be careful of people who tell you that adventure exists at the next turn--because it turns out that they are not…

— Christopher Herz

“Believe it or not, stories don’t function in terms of beginnings, middles and ends, they simply have beginnings, middles, and ends.”

— FILM CRIT HULK

“Think of all the stories that would end before they begin if their characters gave careful consideration to the consequences of their actions.”

— Peter Selgin

“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.”

— Jacqueline Carey