Stories Quotes

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

All Stories are True.

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.