Story Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image ““The story flared, then faded.”” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Story Transience
“It was an old story so rubbed with retelling that the edges were blurry.” — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“It was a long story, and like most of the stories in the world, never finished. There was an ending - there always is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“I’ve been sifting through the layers of dusty books and faded papers. They tell a story I used to know; one that happened so… — Kate Wolf Copy Share Image
“...and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.” — Alexis M. Smith Copy Share Image
“Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world’s memory. The past is erased without stories.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the story was never empty. Perhaps we simply stopped looking.” — MissFit Writes Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really.... — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting.… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins. — J. R. Celski Copy Share Image
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
Starting a new job can be nerve-racking , but it's also exciting. You're embarking on a new future, positioning yourself to write a fresh… — Adena Friedman Copy Share Image
It's a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to tell the world about it.… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
If you read 'Lord of the Rings' and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you're missing the whole point… — Doug TenNapel Copy Share Image
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
