Stories Quote by Kirby Larson Download Open image ““I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.”” — Kirby Larson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stories
“Those are the facts. It's easy to believe in facts, my dear. To believe in the story you need faith. Tell me the story… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“No lies, I thought, but lots of stories. True stories. True lies. Powerful stories, heroic tales, and cautionary fables.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed.” — Cora M. Strayer Copy Share Image
“I had been brought up to believe that you never told tales, and that you should fight your own battles” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the storyteller.” — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“I believed him because the truth is never hard to recognize. Nothing is ever quite so drab and repetitious and forlorn and ludicrous as… — Budd Schulberg Copy Share Image
I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded. — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here. — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
“My mama always said piecing quilts is like making friends.' She kept her eyes on the scissors as she cut up a piece of blue ticking. 'Sometimes the more different fabrics - and people - are,' she said, 'the stronger the pattern.' I looked up at her. She smiled a sad, sweet smile at me. I felt as if she'd… — Kirby Larson Copy Share
The year has held its ups and downs for me; I'm sure it has for you, too. I'm counting on the year ending on… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves. — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
“The war was in Europe, not here. Why all this fuss about where someone was born? Wasn't it where he lived - rather, how… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career. — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
“History has a way of repeating itself, but it's up to us to break the cycle.” — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa — Kirby Larson Copy Share
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image