Storytelling Quote by Stephen P. Kiernan Download Open image ““A tale in which one is mortified does not bear repeating.”” — Stephen P. Kiernan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Storytelling
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never been told.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Mortification is made up of small conquests, such as smiling at those who annoy us, denying the body some superfluous fancy, getting accustomed to… — Francis Fernandez Copy Share Image
“Time and time again one has seen how stories get exaggerated in the telling.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
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“But this is not the story of a life. It is the story of lives, knit together, overlapping in succession, rising again from grave… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“With each passing minute, I’m developing a deeper appreciation of the word mortified,” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters is that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.” — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“And what is life but a little row in a small boat, every moment leaving what we know, every stroke unable to see where… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“The memory still made her blush, though in the many months since then, the thrill in her heart had been replaced entirely by longing.… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“A man could be outwardly obedient, but tardiness revealed his inner determination, proof that slavery affects only the body. It does not include possession… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Was there always to be someone who, by comparison, made your circumstances seem fortunate?” — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Are you with the Resistance?” “No. I am simply trying to survive, and to help those I can.” Fleur” — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps slavery is harder for a person who has known freedom. Perhaps it does not matter. The” — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“No deception lasts forever. Truth rises like good bread dough.” — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Fear, they learned, did not live in the heart or mind. It inhabited the stomach like a bad oyster. There was nothing to do… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Even now, the angling of the light into this room. The curl of the curtain as it falls from a slackening breeze. To call… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“My mother died halfway when they shot my father. Then almost halfway more, after what the soldiers did to her. Today was the last… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“a lifetime’s worth of narratives happening at once—the television. At first I was amazed. Soon I found it predictable, however, and dulling to the… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“When Emma was fifteen Uncle Ezra had taught her reduction, boiling a full pot of beef or chicken stock down to a quarter cup… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram 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
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
