Stories Quotes

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people an...

...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly im...

The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case ...

To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names...

Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the st...

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes....

Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good ficti...

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to...

As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habi...

And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the tr...

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can a...

I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, ...

Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it no...

Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and...

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that di...

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, make...

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

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their st...

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For m...

You can never know enough about your characters

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to eac...

I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'm...

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands...

Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?

A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It ...

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparat...

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, ...

Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost ev...

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the...

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the...

There are people.There are stories.The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often...

People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't t...

People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a ...

Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the sa...

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you ...

A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a wh...

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are...

But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. The...

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and...

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may ...

I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do ...

We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the ...

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully u...

I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words togeth...

There were no public articulations of these humiliations, so we took refuge in accidental occasions ...

All we have is compassion and stories.

Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Wha...

A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...

People who understand everything get no stories.

Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, a...

I don't have much time for stories," Vin said."Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A ...

Wit smiled. "All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who e...

All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And...

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. In fact, the need to make up a story, especi...

We're wired for story. In a culture of scarcity and perfectionism, there's a surprisingly simple rea...

The reckoning is how we walk into our story; the rumble is where we own it. The goal of the rumble i...

You lay claim to your stories; you honor, with your hard work and the best of your talent, their ins...

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

I might be asked, ‘Do you equally reject the approach which begins with the question “What do modern...

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story ful...

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

Making a story from the messy thoughts and half-thoughts in her head, building a world and lives and...

So what is it you're going to show me today?""A number of things. In fact, what I'm going to show yo...

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces li...

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparit...

As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that con...

After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless unive...

I think that's just a story.""But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true.

If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die

I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.

waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. No...

I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of...

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us...

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive sto...

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and...

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, whic...

There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one...

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

You digest and absorb your life by turning it into stories,' he says, 'the same way this theater see...

We ourselves, will resurrect the memory in order to savor it and carry it forth into the world. We w...

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species int...

Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last...

For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all bu...

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

Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestio...

I was born into a town and a family and the town ad my family happened to me. I own none of it. It i...

I will tell these stories...because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak ...