Quotes About Stories

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

In a great many stories that deal with time travel, there's usually somebody who knows how time travel works. They lay out the rules.

Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.

There is a place called 'heaven' where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.

A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together