Meaning Quote by Flannery O'Connor Download Open image “The meaning of the story is the story.” — Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Meaning Meaning Story Purpose Stories Story Story Story
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 Copy Share Image
“A story doesn’t live until it is imagined in someone’s mind.” “What does the story mean, then?” “It means what you want it to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood. — Marcus Sedgwick Copy Share Image
A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“talking about the “meaning” of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say different things… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The story, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds... transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world. — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Without meaning to sound anti-men, ghastly women are the closest you get to a male role. — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
When you find your purpose in life, nurture it and make it grow so that when you look back you will not regret living… — Pamela M Copy Share Image
“When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music,… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“You can drink your soup ice-cold, but it's no longer soup; you can do eccentric things in life, but if you haven't been able… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There is a grand design hidden behind the obstacles , they are inevitable in everybodys life, they are not without purpose. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
