Stories Quotes
It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.
That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.
A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens 'em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide.
Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild stew we are.
I love it when there’s nothingLeft to see but tiny spots of what’s still lightStories piercing the night.
Every good story needs a good, bad and lost soul. A people to fight for, an item to turn the tide of battle, an enigmatic character, a motivator/mentor, and an unlikely reluctant hero.
...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.
I believe stories have a will of their own, one that surpasses in volition that of their teller. In realms of Storytelling, stories control their bearers, and eventually, their hearers as well.
I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring at you.
All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.
I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.
The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation
I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.
I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.
Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.
Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.
ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.
A trap, like a goodstory, needs to hint at greater things without revealing themuntil the prey is snared.
Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them.
I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren’t easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.
- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State, and the People.- No, Monsieur Robespierre. There is much more than that.
Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.
Every small business has to become a publisher—a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.
A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading towardone inevitable conclusion
One single sentence, one frame of film, and abracadabra! the story’s wings would take her to another lost world, another magic realm that was ready to be explored.
A goodtrap, like a good story, has to arise naturally from the environment.It has to be seamless. If the prey suspects what’s coming, they’ll bolt.
There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words...
The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.
We are all joined in a circle of stories.
...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.
There are only three possible endings —aren't there? — to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That’s it. All stories end like that.
I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is.
If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up their own stories
A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.
And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?
We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.
