Quotes About Stories

In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

Today's readers can be roughly divided into two groups, those who accept the fantasy villains of childhood, as in the James Bond stories and Arnold Schwarzenegger films, and those who insist on credibility.

A storyteller's form of healing [is] being a counselor, and healing people with ideas, with stories and kind, loving guidance.

I think a relationship is like two stories," I say at last, feeling my way cautiously through my thoughts. "Like…two open books, pressing together, and all the words mingle into one big, epic story. But if they stop mingling…" I lift my glass for emphasis. "Then they turn into two stories again. And that's when it's over." I clap my hands together, spilling champagne. "The books shut. The End.

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.

In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.

The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...

Good stories never wear out, re-gift a book!

Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.

The African continent has so many stories to tell, it's about time they are told, by them - not us.

Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.

it is important to stress that history is always constructed, not absolute or unchallangeable. Histories are stories about the past, and reconstructing the past ill involve elements of mythologising from the cultural, political and theoretical stances of both the historian and the informants.

When absorbing the sadness of the loss, we must concentrate on bad guys to demonize, or black holes of sympathy in which we get to play the cosmic victim of terrible circumstances. Demonizing and victimizing are the sources of those stories in which we can get so woefully stuck

Stories get remembered about 13 times better than statistics. Facts tell, but stories sell!

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.