Quotes About Stories

Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the future that shapes our present.

May you be strong, wise, and brave, if it does, and may all your stories have happy endings, and may you always know how much I love you, with all my heart and soul

Nos contamos historias de fantasmas mientras caminábamos. Fue Steve quien habló la mayor parte del tiempo, ya que él sabe mucho más que yo al respecto. Estaba en plena forma. A veces olvida los finales de las historias, o confunde los nombres, pero aquella noche no. ¡Aquello era mejor que estar con Stephen King!

My Cuddle Time Bible Story Book Sleeping with Jesus Baby Bibles: Tall Tales for Tiny tots Everybody Poops (Except God)

It happened so long ago I can't even be sure it happened as I say it did. Stories change in the telling, memory makes up as much as it knows. We were very small. The things we saw were all mixed up with the things we dreamed and the things we were scared of.

stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touchable just like the land, and must have fluid half-known depths just like the sea.

At last, a kind of immortality could be achieved by anybody who learned the new trick of recording their words and thoughts and stories, by marking impressions in wet clay. The immortality of speaking across time and space, even long after your original body returned to dust.

Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.

In the Ebbinghaus curve, or forgetting curve, R stands for memory retention, s is the relative strength of memory and t is time. The power of a memory can be built through repetition, but it is the memory we are recalling when we speak, not the event. And stories are annealed in the telling, edited by turns each time they are recalled...People remember what they can live with more often than how they lived.

Most stories about one's past could fairly and adequately be told in a single sentence, and a short one at that: Everyone did the best they could.

The wisdom of the Gods is such that their instruction is concealed within stories. Our minds delight in the stories, and the messages of the Gods are implanted thus. All unaware, we are instructed even as we are entertained.

All successful writers use resonance to enhance their stories by drawing power from stories that came before, by resonating with their readers' experiences, and by resonating within their own works.

Your personal tastes are going to be influenced by the stories that you've loved the most. So don't ever try to be "completely" original. It's a good way to go mad.

It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.

Ursúa y Castellanos hablaron hasta que la noche azul llena de estrellas cubrió las tierras bajas de la sierra. Todavía a medianoche, cuando en el campamento buena parte de los soldados dormían y sólo los guardias vigilaban en los pasos altos, seguía junto a la fogata el rumor inacabable de ese diálogo, como de dos náufragos que acabaran de llegar otra vez al mundo, porque no hay gran amistad que no comience por un largo intercambio de historias.

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

Stories give people the feeling that there is meaning, that there is ultimately an order lurking behind the incredible confusion of appearances and phenomena that surrounds them. This order is what people require more than anything else.

All we can do is keep telling the stories, hoping that someone will ear. Hoping that in the noisy echoing nightmare of endlessly breaking news and celebrity gossip, other voices might be heard, speaking of the life of the mind and the soul's journey.

Such stories may predominate in daily life, but when literature starts taking cues from statistics, it seals its own fate.

writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.

Siempre creyó que un novelista debe estar a la altura de sus historias, y desde siempre le aquejó el temor de nunca ser lo suficientemente bravo

Dicen que cuando una es feliz, se queda sin historias que contar

The tales told by the dead are fundamentally different, because their stories are not told to conceal their wounds.