“I’m the hero of my own story, but others tell their stories as well.” — Daniel H. Wilson, Press Start to Play
Tag: story
Quote of the Day
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish’d by our virtues.” — William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well
Quote of the Day
“The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Quote of the Day
“Everybody’s in the middle of a story. So you just have to write the ending.” — Paula Fox, The Art of Fiction No. 181, The Paris Review
Quote of the Day
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” — Orson Welles, Orson Welles: Interviews
Quote of the Day
“We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Quote of the Day
“What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.” — Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting