Story Quotes

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest ...

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) i...

And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the bl...

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again li...

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to...

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unabl...

to love is to destroy and that to be loved is the one to be destroyed

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tel...

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories ...

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience...

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a w...

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensiv...

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the rig...

Creatures of the Darkness BY VICKI JORDANIt was world of vampires and demons, where innocence was ra...

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere ...

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are...

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm...

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and colo...

There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also whi...

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a ...

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

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the st...

She had not known how to tell him that his loving whispers were always in her ears, like a story she...

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a pl...

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or uniqu...

It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can.

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm...

She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as sh...

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

My godfather sad that story was abut taking the chaotic jigsaw of life, making it into a picture and...

Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their righ...

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. ...

Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but ...

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like righ...

How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give ima...

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold b...

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the ...

There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived ...

Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-...

I am dust and my story ends here.

As Kipling said, that’s another story...

As I mentioned briefly on the phone, the best thing about the Air Chrysalis is that it's not an imit...

If I do tell you the story, the two of us will always share it. And I don’t know if that’s the right...

Every story has a time to be told

This story will never go down.

Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak spec...

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, prete...

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chanc...

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.

The story is told of yourself.

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetti...

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was g...

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories ...

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go t...

It is not the voice that commands the story it is the ear.

The seventh reader interrupts you: "Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end...

A story never ends. The narrator is usually provided with a nice, artistic spot for his voice to sto...

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

All of which makes up a story I do not choose to tell. I choose not to tell it because to no one, no...

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have...

Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

The more ‘life’ a story has the more readily will it be susceptible of allegorical interpretations: ...

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability ...

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven n...

I can change the story. I am the story.

AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy an...

what's real within the story is real within the story

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 s there are in the bright ones.

When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think b...

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it bette...

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to a...

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a li...

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

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? The...

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...

He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, ea...

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...

[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.

A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feel...

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't te...

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearan...

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, s...

The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come...

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how relia...

He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? D...

When you’re telling a story, you’re trying to connect to people in a particular way … The way in whi...

In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best ...

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creatu...

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it det...