Stories Quotes

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 ...

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest me...

The world would be a sadder place without stories.

When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation....

But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the...

Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe m...

There's no future in stories...Stories are things of the past, things for museums.

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all ...

A book for children, like the myths and folktales that tend to slide into it, is really a blueprint ...

The real reason why so many artists now take to politics, ‘commitment’ and so on is that they are ru...

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Women.Lord God, I used to follow these girls. THey would come at me, those girls who were not really...

…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story ...

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time....

Some stories are true that never happened.

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inhe...

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or...

What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge...

It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and st...

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

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful thi...

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

I have no way of knowing whether you, who eventually will read this record, like stories or not. If ...

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

There are gods and there are true knights too. All the stories can't be lies.

Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The be...

No,” said Bran. “I haven’t. And if I have it doesn’t matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same s...

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as...

old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.

She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. H...

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some sto...

In fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not on...

The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ......

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happ...

That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around.

Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must of...

The real protagonist of the story, however, is the magic ring, because it is the movements of the ri...

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

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.