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Quotes About Stories

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~ Mark Twain
There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind—the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.
~ Mark Twain
I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.
~ Markus Zusak
There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared.
~ Markus Zusak
There's a multitude of stories (...) that I allow to distract me as I work, just as the colours do. I pick them up in the unluckiest, unlikliest places and I make sure to remember them as I go about my work. The Book Thief is one such story.
~ Markus Zusak
I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant. None of those things, however, came out of my mouth. All I was able to do was turn to Liesel Meminger and tell her the only truth I truly know. I said it to the book thief and I say it now to you. A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR I am haunted by humans.
~ Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak
~ the Doorman
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race—that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
~ Markus Zusak
I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race—that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
~ Markus Zusak
They're strange, those wars. Full of blood and violence - but full of stories that are equally difficult to fanthom. It's true, people will mutter. I don't care if you don't belive me. It was the fox who saved my life or, They died on either side of me and I was left standing there, the only one without a bullet between my eyes. Why me? Why me and not them?
~ Markus Zusak
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race—that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant. None
~ Markus Zusak
Sì in questo mondo ho visto accadere tantissime cose. Ho assistito ai peggiori cataclismi e lavorato per gli uomini più scellerati. Ma ci sono stati anche altri momenti. Ci sono storie (una manciata, come ho già detto) alle quali consento di distrarmi dalla fatica, come faccio con i colori. Le raccolgo nei luoghi più disparati e improbabili, e mi assicuro di non dimenticarmene mai, mentre lavoro. La Ladra di Libri è una di queste storie.
~ Markus Zusak
I don't write stories for you, signora. Not for Italians. For the others. I write them for the outsiders. The ones like me. The ones who long to wander over the old stones, watch the light. Those who, even for a while, want to be in the Italy they dream of.
~ Marlena De Blasi
London is full of short stories, long stories, epics, farces, sit-coms, soaps and squibs, walking round hand in hand.
~ Martin Amis
Right at this moment, I don't care if they kill me. I don't care. But they're not going to kill my stories. They're not going to kill my stories. They're all I've got.
~ Martin McDonagh
that my stories were slightly involved. To this day she declares that I told her one moving anecdote
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The house is two stories high and has seven rooms. It would have cost perhaps fifteen thousand in the early twenties when it was built.
~ Arthur Miller
Awareness is the first step in rewriting old stories.
~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
He tells stories of the gods, but his yarn is spun from the ungodly, human heart.
~ Arundhati Roy
Every one of them had a story to tell.
~ Atul Gawande
America's tiny reign of terror, Salem represents one of the rare moments in our enlightened past when the candles are knocked out and everyone seems to be groping about in the dark, the place where all good stories begin.
~ Stacy Schiff
E per noi ogni giorno è prezioso. E abbiamo i racconti. E sappiamo riparare le cose, voi no. E anche se il vento ci soffia contro, abbiamo sempre mangiato pane e tempesta, e passeremo anche questa.
~ Stefano Benni
pages of books--he steps inside magical stories, inviting readers to come along for the ride. Witty verse and verse and fantastical
~ Stephanie Lisa Tara
The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey.
~ Stephanie Lovett Stoffel