Stories Quote by Vikram Chandra Download Open image “The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.” — Vikram Chandra ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stories World
You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“What could my mother be to yours? What kin is my father to yours anyway? And how did you and I meet ever? But… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry. I won’t forgive you –’ Bashir Ali blanched ‘– because there’s nothing to forgive. We are both trapped, you on that side… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“Then what in your opinion is a good story?' 'What it's always been, monkey,' Ganesha said. 'One dhansu conflict. Some chaka-chak song and dance.… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative. — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize that you… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“So now that began to develop into a full-fledged shouting match of its own, and all in all it was soon a full-scale old-style… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“In this city, the rich had some room, and the middle class had less, and the poor had none.” — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone. — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“if you want to live in the city you have to think ahead three turns, and look behind a lie to see the truth… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“We may read the same texts, but the dhvani that manifests within you will be unique. Your beauty will be your own. If you… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
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… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
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… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
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
