Story

I have no desire to move mountains, construct monuments, or leave behind in my wake material evidence of my existence. But, in the final recollection, if the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart ... Then in livingI have made my mark.

- Thomas L. Odem, Jr. Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions ... until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

- Anouk Aimee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But I hope that in the lives of the characters, you will find stories worth holding in your memory, perhaps even in your heart. That's the transaction that counts more than best-seller lists, royalty statements, awards, or reviews. Because in the pages of this book, you and I will meet one-on-one, my mind and yours, and you will enter a world of my making and dwell there, not as a character that I control, but as a person with a mind of your own. You will make of my story what you need it to be, if you can. I hope my tale is true enough and flexible enough that you can make it into a world worth living in.

- Orson Scott Card Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

- Hans Christian Andersen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

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Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story.

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Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.

- Hans Christian Anderson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is the essence of the transaction between storyteller and audience. The 'true' story is not the one that exists in my mind it is certainly not the written words on the bound paper that you hold in your hands. The story in my mind is nothing but a hope the text of the story is the tool I created in order to try to make that hope a reality. The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

- Orson Scott Card Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

- Virginia Woolf Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as 'twas said to me.

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