Stories Quotes

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy S...

Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if...

Ah—now you think I have been lying to you, that this is only a story. It has a king in it. And while...

A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventuall...

I contend that good children's stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That's another way of...

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captur...

There are only three possible endings —aren't there? — to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness...

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differentl...

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differentl...

Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy,...

Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the onl...

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line u...

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some st...

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories ou...

You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a...

Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at th...

Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at th...

This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly."This is not the way that things end when...

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

Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or a...

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is ...

The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.

These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast asid...

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someon...

Stories come alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes ...

These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful...

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beg...

...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite ma...

You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and t...

But we also need stories. Great stories.

But we also need stories. Great stories.

But we also need stories. Great stories.

But we also need stories. Great stories.

And I here make a rule-a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange ...

Pilon complained, "It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too many lessons in it. S...

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenl...

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytellin...

She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were...

To call up modern versions of the old stories, one has to go forth and live life. As a result then, ...

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insu...

You can't love someone without imaginative sympathy, without beginning to see the world from another...

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a stor...

Stories are light.

Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be impo

We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to. We come into this world on our own- i...

Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

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

Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.

Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence...

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses...

But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like t...

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All ...

Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar h...

In the end, we'll all become stories

That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story i...

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr...

It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, y...

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilder...

And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut...

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

You have a long history," he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. "Ah, Harrier, were I...

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories...

The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story o...

Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of...

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Som...

The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from ...

The universe is made of stories, not atoms!

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.

Myths tell us what those like us have done, can do, should do. Without myths to lead the way, we hes...

So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And w...

Did you know that writing stories down kills them?Of course it does, words aren't meant to be stiff,...

It’s so the stories go that the Ginen tell. If you find a beautiful fairmaid swimming in the river, ...

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunc...

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautif...

So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, pos...

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life o...

Once upon a time,’ is code for ‘I’m lying to you.’ We experience stories as lies and truth at the sa...

I made this story up to make me feel better. Now I'm writing it down. It's not true.

Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena.

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets h...

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't ...

People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but no...

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets h...

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because ...

Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to b...

The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to ...

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.