Quotes about stories

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They weren't true stories they were better than that.

Be careful what you say and do around a writer your words and actions may become material.

Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express list of stories.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents there should be nothing of the sort in it.

A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair and some great stories have neither.

Some dark nights hide the cruelest of secrets. Such are the tales of the dark shadows hidden in that old castle in a distant land. The story of ages started with a classic highlighting the infamous monster made out of a man.

Babies do not want to hear about babies they like to be told of giants and castles.

Our stories become self-fulfilling we will always live up to the story. So make it a desired one

You’re with you 24/7 you must love you the most.

path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones some are not. That's dark and light.

The best stories have many meanings their meaning changes as our capacity to understand and appreciate meaning grows.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

I write a lot of environmental stories.

Every book is its own black hole. Don’t fight the pull find out where it takes you.

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

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

No, Tiny. Words. Passion. The danger of falling in love is you mistakenly believe the loved one is the only source of passion in your life. But there is passion everywhere. In music. In words. In the stories you tell and the stories you see. Find passion everywhere, and share it widely. Don't narrow it down to one thin line.

A heart in love is a thriller book of many stories

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

There is a love that binds us allIt's in our blood, it's who we areand it's nested in the branches of this treeand it's rooted in the Earth where we keepall of our stories

People don’t remember lessons. They remember stories.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?Doesn't that make life a story?

There's magic in stories, magic in hope, and magic in coming together. I have learnt from people's stories, been inspired by their hope, and been strengthened by their coming together.

A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to the world.

The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts.

To my words: There was once a wall between us. Now we walk together and greet the world.

Be what the world needs.

Positive thoughts shape a positive world.

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

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

Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.

Your life should reflect your heart.

Listen to what speaks to your heart.

Create from the heart.

Pour your heart onto the page.

Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings.

Gratefulness heightens awareness.

Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.

I don't pay much attention to the distinction between fantasy and science fiction–or between “genre” and “mainstream” for that matter. For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors-which is the logic of narratives in general–over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.We spend our entire lives trying to tell stories about ourselves–they’re the essence of memory. It is how we make living in this unfeeling accidental universe tolerable. That we call such a tendency “the n

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

And those women were sneaky. They understood that including fantastical elements in their tales- golden eggs, signing harps, talking frogs- worked to mask a deeper purpose....it made the stories look on the surface like 'a mere bubble of nonsense' within which it was possible to 'utter harsh truths, to say what you dare' about the state of women's lives. Because they were just stories, right? Harmless little fantasies?

I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.

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

You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."“Beautiful and full of monsters?"“All the best stories are.

We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer.

Every heart must have its privatebestseller book.

Stories are the thing which shapes our kinky and wicked minds.

A sweet kiss on her head made her little heart swell; she had pancakes, her dog. She had love. All was well.

My grandma loved to be on stage entertaining people.  She loves to make people smile and laugh.  She loves to brighten other people's day.  She often calls perfect strangers her angel, as a way of witnessing, but also to encourage and build their self-esteem.

What the famous big blue Boy Scout told to a green Kryptonite? What?? YOU rock!

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

Everybody has a story. It’s like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can’t say you haven’t got them. Same goes for stories.

I have fallen in love with the stories of our lives, our everyday mythologies. How will they unfold? What will become of us?

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.

Love is the answer.

Take a deep breath. Inhale peace. Exhale happiness.

Find peace in knowing.

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

I will tell these stories...because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak to these people, and I speak to you because I cannot help it. It gives me strength, almost unbelievable strength, to know that you are there. I covet your eyes, your ears, the collapsible space between us. How blessed are we to have each other? I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words. I will fill today, tomorrow, every day until I am taken back to God. I will tell stori

All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

Talent and work ethic are nothing without belief.

Her words dance on the page.

I fight evil, and words are my weapons of choice.

The path you create for yourself is the mark you leave behind when you’re gone from this world. All beauty and angst is stopped by the grave. But your words, your laughter, your faith, and spirit, refuse to die with you. They remain in the hearts and minds of those you touched.

Love writes without words.

Words matter. Without words you can't have stories and without stories we would never have heard of the Greatcoats.

I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...

There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the feelings.

That's very important about stories. They touch something that is human in us and is probably unchanging. Perhaps this is why the important knowledge is passed through stories. It's what holds a culture together. Culture has a story, and every person in it participates in that story. They world is made up of stories; it's not made up of facts.

What did the mat say to the door? You must be really aDOORable to open up to everyone who knock at you. And I welcome everyone and what do I get? People stepping all over me

In that moment, I realized that no matter what words I chose and no matter how much time I spent in telling, I would never be able to express my full experience...There are some experiences that only you can enter, that only you can truly hold. They are too vast to be imparted. You cannot even hold them wholly in your arms: they spill over into the dark beyond you, brimming, shooting out in ropes of light that make you ache with loneliness and yet yoke you to the world at the same time, because

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either, but it was a reassuring story: that the dead were not entirely dead but were alive in a different way; a paler way admittedly, and somewhat darker. But still able to send messages, if only such messages could be recognized and deciphered. People need such stories, Pilar said once, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void.

To be fair to them, they were only after something that walled them off from the past and from people in general, not something that offered any connection that might prove painful or human. Thet wanted stories, I came to realise, in which they were already imprisoned, not stories in which they appeared along with the storyteller, accomplices in escaping.

Stories shape the world.

We nurture the candle flames that show the way ahead. We are guerrillas of the word, unsung heroes breathing softly on the embers of the human mind, so that they might re-ignite the hearths around which we once found safe haven. The book is the Light and the Life.

I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature’s killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that’s not the word.

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person—flawed, complex, striving—you’ve reached beyond stereotype.

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

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human.

We create words, words create wonders.

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show,

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

We mature not by years, but by stories…" Cinderella In Focus:Cindy's Secret

Don’t let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future.

Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

Great souls, Great stories.

To imagine is to spark beauty in our thoughts.

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.