Shapes Quote by Tad Williams Download Open image “She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.” — Tad Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Shapes Stories
She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she… — Dudley Clendinen Copy Share Image
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to… — Sandra Worth Copy Share Image
“she would have to tell the story of this afternoon to herself over and over until she could make a different shape from it… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It… — Kate Jacobs Copy Share Image
...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told. — Jennifer McMahon Copy Share Image
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“That is what I hate about ruling and royalty, Simon. It is living, breathing people with whom a prince plays the games of statecraft.” — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of being lost and I'm tired of dying, so I'm going to try something different this time.” — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“A piece of writing is a trap,” he said cheerily, “and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“He shouldn't have had to die." "Nobody should have to die," Miriamele said slowly. "Especially while they're still alive.” — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.” — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“Go down." It seemed obvious. "You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work.” — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“We call darkness our friend, but when the elders tell us stories of the Garden, they talk of the holy, unending light that was… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy. — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
You're getting into some kind of shape, cop." Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head."… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, ‘Stop Working Out! Don’t go outside!’ He wanted me… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience. — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image