Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.
I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn’t work.
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.
I used my daughter’s crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.
Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.
In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.
What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I’m told.
Don’t put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.
I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.
But stories somehow lengthen when begun.
Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.
God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.
If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell.
God invites us today to live a great story with Him.