Quotes About Stories

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

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

Jesus communicated parables to the secular people around him and he used stories that were very relevant to their lives, and He was taking heaven's truth and packaging it in an earthly context.

I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.

In their music the Minutemen told stories, postulated theories, held debates, aired grievances, and celebrated victories—and did it in a direct, intimate way that flattered the intelligence as well as the soul.

My story and my stories are all, in one or another, the same, tales of solitude and the grand pursuit of connection, of success and the inevitability of defeat.

WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT WOMEN, ANYWAY? And, lower: HEY, EVERY WOMAN, PAL, IS A VOLUME OF STORIES A CATALOGUE OF MOVEMENTS A SPECTACULAR ARRAY OF IMAGES Then: PLUS THERE'S THE MYSTERY OF LEARNING ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD A fourth man had concluded: AND OF EVERYTHING

WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT WOMEN, ANYWAY? And, lower: HEY, EVERY WOMAN, PAL, IS A VOLUME OF STORIES A CATALOGUE OF MOVEMENTS A SPECTACULAR ARRAY OF IMAGES Then: PLUS THERE'S THE MYSTERY OF LEARNING ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD A fourth man had concluded: AND OF EVERYTHING THAT'S CONCEALED UNDER HER CLOTHES

I'm only a few years behind you," she said. "It will happen to me." "No, you'll be fine," Bosch said. "Your job is telling stories. Stories will always need to be told.

But then again, in addition to paper and cardboard...a little illuminated box, that contains thousands and thousands of stories? People aren't fascinated by that? Really?

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