Meaning Quote by Flannery O'Connor

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in…

— G. Stanley Hall

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to…

— Flannery O'Connor

The meaning of the story is the story.

— Flannery O'Connor

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

— Marcus Sedgwick

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

— Italo Calvino

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

— Donald Miller

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating,…

— Lorrie Moore

“but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“A story is alive, as you and I are. It is rounded by muscle and sinew. Rushed with blood. Layered with skin, both rough…

— Cameron Dokey

“Story is one of the foundation stones of the human mind along with rhythm and chant. If a collection of facts lacks a narrative…

— Frank Vehafric

The metaphors exist for the stories.

— Kurt Busiek