Figures Quote by Shannon Hale Download Open image “Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.” — Shannon Hale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Figures Real Stories Use
“Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life...go make your happily-ever-after happen.” — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story? — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own. — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter. — Olivier Dahan Copy Share Image
Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the… — Lily King Copy Share Image
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. — Todd Strasser Copy Share Image
Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's the only… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Look at a truth in a situation, keep it real, don't try to get a laugh at the expense of your story. — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
“Well, write me into the list of Those Who Don’t Mind a Bit,” said Cupid, eyeing his perfectly toned arms and chest. “My, but… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo? — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Um… I guess that’s that,” said Cerise. “That?” said Maddie. “That is never that. This is that. Or else that is this. And this… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“He wildly combed his hair with his fingers. “I can’t bear to be out there with you right now, all those indifferent people watching… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page? — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
The best way to hold customers is to constantly figure out how to give them more for less. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville. — Jason Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share
[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works,… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made… — Jenna Black Copy Share Image