Stories Quotes
I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.
Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena.
These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.
I made this story up to make me feel better. Now I'm writing it down. It's not true.
The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.
Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.
Stories don't end, " he says. "They just turn into new beginnings." (pg. 123)
Both fictions and memories are recalled and retold. They're both forms of stories. Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other.
We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.
It's difficult from one story to jump in another story, 2 stories are okay for one hour. But more and more characters you start losing the link. (Thriller 2)
The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.
These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.
There are only two moments when everything is possible in this life, " said Petrus, "when one drinks, and when one makes up stories.
People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but now the story means something different to what it meant before.
I could feel the beginning of the story gathering in her throat. Stories are that way, like storms. If you pay attention, you can sense them in the air.
Is it true that some stories only just manage to be born? Or do these stories always seek their own path into the world and do they always, eventually, find a way of being told?
Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories
From an author's point of view, the most painful and dangerous weapon ain't no gun or blade, but a piece of paper with the word rejected on it.
Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.
The greatest thing ever in the history of the world and of all of human endeavor from time immemorial is stories.
Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will.
Tell me a legend, ” he said out of nowhere, and he realised they were making stories of each other, or themselves.
The problems of the past.How the problems of the past, uncorrected, inevitably became the problems of the future.
Who didn’t exist at the convergence of a thousand thousand stories?
And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.
Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air?Then all we are left with are stories.
They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.
I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.
Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.
If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.
No two stories are the same. They may seem the same at first glance, but, once you take a closer look, give the story some of your time, you realise its unique qualities.
I don’t want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.