Stories Quotes

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.

- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only ...

Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? ...

Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are curre...

We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...

Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragi...

I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I sus...

She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end ...

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w...

When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger rea...

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?""Stories. And they give me hope.

All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the r...

All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop.She's realized the re...

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a boo...

Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (who...

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I ...

When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories.

I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give...

There is another version of the tale. That is the tale the women tell each other, in their private l...

The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in t...

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things...

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are librar...

Without stories, we are incomplete.

Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to i...

So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and...

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories...

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no...

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless...

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling...

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of...

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That ...

Think of all the stories you've heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His parents are killed ...

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

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a go...

I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did d...

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequ...

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequ...

Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If yo...

By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across—each incident, book, novel, li...

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what hap...

Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer ...

[A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the ...

Never neglect the charms of narrative for the human heart.

Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the...

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

...one could accept Muhammad as a genuine mystic—just as one could accept Joan of Arc's voices as ha...

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, w...

Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow c...

There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There h...