Quotes About Stories

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.

History is full of stories that aren't actually true. —LORD CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

We're a bundle of incompatible parts, and we make up stories about ourselves to disguise the fact. The mental unity of the individual is a fiction. There is simply, in the human machine, a multitude of loosely linked behaviour systems which take control of the body and participate in a common delusion of being one single self

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

Light, to me, stands for Living In Gods Heavenly Thoughts. That's a good place to live. That is what influenced me to tell stories in light and that happened to be movies and plays.

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.