Story = Character + Predicament + Attempted Extrication
– Jonathan Gottschall
Related Quotes:
- Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems. – Jonathan Gottschall
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- Never ever allow your present predicament to alter your goals in life-. – Abdulazeez Henry Musa
- Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. – John Updike
- Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace? – Sarah Ruhl
- Using excuses for the predicament you’re in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict. – Alexandra Sobetsky
- The Dark Knight 2008, favourite character Joker always in the right face and showing all humans in one character. A character died from characters! – Deyth Banger
- She’s the main character in her story, just like I’m the main character in mine. – Marisa de los Santos
- I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. – Barbara Kingsolver
- No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear – Solon
- Almost everything a leader fails to achieve is anything he fails to try. What is not attempted is what is difficult to do. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before. – Abhysheq Shukla
- He couldn’t grab reality if he attempted the task with both hands. – Kelly Moran
- A failure is not one who has attempted and failed but one who has failed to attempt for fear of failing. – Chinonye J Chidolue
- If it had attempted to strengthen then I still receive, but if that had been repeated to make me give up. So I gave up. – Uray Indira
- The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture – Alasdair MacIntyre
- That’s blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you – Keri Arthur
- California has legislatively barred alimony payments to a dependent spouse who has attempted to murder the supporting spouse. Cal. Fam. Code § 4324. – D Kelly Weisberg
- I’m not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss. – Stephen King
- I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place. – Donald Miller
- The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
- It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough. – Dejan Stojanovic
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. – Mark Twain
- When you write a story you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story. – Stephen King
- I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don’t let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. – Unarine Ramaru
- Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at. – Alaric Hutchinson
- The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character. – Abhijit Naskar
- The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ. – Jim George
- Don’t make your character that people can walk on it, make your character as sky so that people would dream to get there – Arefin Bashar Arif
- My position is for one to be thought of as a CHARACTER is totally different from one having CHARACTER. – Donavan Nelson Butler
- Change your character and your character will change you. – ABC
- Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are. – John Wooden
- My character is beyond your every thought, and I’m different from your every character. – Tanmaya Guru
- Although it’s good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy for great talent. – Gugu Mona
- The character was created by you, if you kill yourself you kill the character, it happen because you done it… you don’t realise it! – Deyth Banger
- Struggle forms character. No struggle, no character. – Lauren Groff
- He was a character.A character who should still be here. Damn it all to hell.He should still be here. – Lisa Schroeder
- Although it’s good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy of great talent. – Gift Gugu Mona