“If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayDifferentEndsStoriesFitBills Author:S. Robson Walton
“If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.” IfsWholeStoriesTogetherAirFitQuotations Author:Pablo Picasso
“The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.” WritingMayHas BeensFactsStoriesProcessReaderFitNarrative Book:Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989 Source: Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989
“What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other living creature. Sorrow inseparable from joy.” StoriesJoyLonelinessWallFitSorrowCreaturesMysteriousChainsYellowSunlightPatchesInseparableBrightnessAmbiguousInexplicableLiving Creatures Author:Donna Tartt
“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.” MenWorldArtPhilosophyStoriesChristianEnergyLanguageStarsAnimalMankindWallFitNewsRelationConstantMythCirclesGreekIntimateReportsCompanionBelongingCavesDnaAcquaintanceRumorEgyptianSpeechlessReligion ChristianPrehistoricZodiacNews StoriesHindu ReligionGreek PhilosophyChristian Art Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.” MayPlayCharacterStoriesChanceQualityRolesFit Author:Vincent Piazza
“I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.” IfsThinkingCharacterStoriesJobsActorsFitSomali Author:Barkhad Abdi
“I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.” WayWantStoriesStyleTypeFitHollywoodMy WayNarrativeNot InterestedAccentsTemperamentMold Author:Haile Gerima
“My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.” KnowsFeelsWritingWellsChildrenLongCountryStoriesUseHandsSeemsAbleMovingValuesKnownTreeStreetsWallFitWalkingElementsLong TimeToolsFamiliarEaseVocationMisunderstood Author:Natalia Ginzburg
“Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title story is going to be. Over time, I end up with a dozen or so stories, and I start to see a shape to them, how they fit together, and then I write stories that complement or extend that shape.” KnowsWritingLooksEndsStoriesTogetherFitShapesTitlesCollectionsDozenComplement Author:Brian Evenson