Story Fabric Quotes

#1. Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

Buffy Andrews

#2. I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#3. What came next is very hard to tell. Indeed, I have told it but once before, when I needed to, and I will tell it this time only becaude it forms a strand in the fabric of my story, and it wove itself into what came after.

Juliet Marillier

#4. You're stubborn, Vlad."

"Is that a compliment?

Steven Brust

#5. I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.

Jay Parini

#6. What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light.

Ben Lerner

#7. My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

John Hope Franklin

#8. I am reminded that every day I have the chance to pick up a needle and some thread and add to the story. To stitch together something beautiful and unique, to patch a small scrap of fabric to the story, to the Story of God, that will be retold again and again for all of eternity.

Jerusalem Jackson Greer

#9. It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. The bigger story here is that the fabric of the Net has changed; it's a place for people to connect up around shared interests and then collaborate towards some sort of action.

Steve Rubel

#11. Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.

Mariska Hargitay

#12. As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and bizarre things about the land of my ancestors, equal parts Aldous Huxley and King Herod.

Mei Fong

#13. America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

Marco Rubio

#14. It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.

Jeff Vespa

#15. You have what it takes! Believe! You are the one with the dream. You own it. And you will walk through the open doors. Nothing can stop you.. Risk, even if you make mistakes. So live with faith and abandon. Have some fun. You are being carried ...

Evan Edwards

#16. You'll be sorry," he said unpleasantly.
"I hope so," Alabama answered. "I like paying for the things I do-it makes me feel square with the world".

Zelda Fitzgerald

#17. It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

E. M. Forster

#18. The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several seemingly unrelated ideas that somehow magically come together to create the fabric of the story.

Katherine Paterson

#19. so i will say this-
give me your suffering
and i swear it will be carried
even if that means the death
of sorrow inside you
and the birth of sorrow
inside me.

Christopher Poindexter

#20. Never crowd a pan with too many mushrooms. They give off an enormous amount of moisture. And there's nothing worse than a braised mushroom, other than a lot of braised mushrooms.

Simon Schama

#21. I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in so well, is such a part of the fabric of the story and of the characters' lives, that it is subtle but meaningful. This is difficult to do well and is something I constantly endeavor to improve.

Julie Klassen

#22. Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

Joseph Addison

#23. As far as I'm concerned, story is everything. It is why we get up in the morning and how we choose who to take to bed at night. Story is the thread that weaves together the very fabric of reality.

J.K. Norry

#24. The short story narrates the moment when a dark door, long closed, is opened, when a forgotten error is unwittingly repeated, when the fabric of a life is revealed to have been woven from frail and dubious fiber over top of something unknowable and possibly very bad.

Michael Chabon

#25. Time is the cosmic fabric upon which everyone's life story is woven.

Garry Fitchett

#26. Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city.

John James Audubon