Quotes About Stories

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

My daughters are in kindergarten and second grade, so many of the stories they tell, write, or illustrate are about each other and our dog, Buster.

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

I feel a kinship to the idea of beloved stories and beloved pieces of art that we can imagine in different ways and sort of take a meta approach in terms of what those stories offer us.

I happen to write a lot of stories that make Kissinger look bad. I'd rather that the stories weren't true, but they all happen to be true.

My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical.

I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories.

The cosmology of the ancient world was telling you about the nature of life here and now. Genesis is not about the origins of life. There were many other creation stories current in Israel at that time and no one was required to believe in that one.

Our stories are all we have. The only thing that can save us is to learn each other's stories. From beginning to end....For every life we know, we are expanded.

Ideas will not save us, he thought. Not right or wrong not peace or retribution. Our stories are all we have. The only thing that can ever save us is to learn each other's stories. From beginning to end.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

I dropped the candies into the children's bags, thinking: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

I dropped the candies into the children's bags, thinking: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

I've always loved books. I was an avid reader, with any number of my own stories rolling around in my head. Writing them down seemed a logical step.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

Stories are important too. Stories help make sense of things. They make you believe you can do things. They help you imagine that things may be different, that if you just have enough courage... or faith... or goodness... you can change things for the better.

But just because stories are unwritten for a time, it doesn't mean they'll be unwritten forever. And just because stories don't get written down, it doesn't mean they're ever lost. We carry them in our minds, our hearts, our very bones. We honour them by passing them on, letting them live on in others, too. — foreword by Alicia Elliott

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?