Quotes About Stories

If we want good stories, writers should be given their due.

I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like the idea that anyone can love books. Books don't care how educated you are or what you do for a living.

I love talking with elderly people.

Drag Race' is a huge opportunity for us to elevate drag culture, to tell our stories. It really is a career-maker.

We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.

Audiences want to feel represented, want to be able to empathize with the characters and the stories they are seeing on the screen.

At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.

Christmas is all about festivity, family, being together, reading stories and entertaining one another.

As a child I had a wild imagination; from the age of seven I'd sit and write epic stories.

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

We were like matching bookends, almost touching but with volumes between us and stories, so many stories.

these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Then conversation. It's always about sex. You really get tired of it. Jokes about sex, stories about sexual conquests, lectures on serious science about sex, which is supposed to sound like an expert discussion which is why it tends to get even more disgusting. But you're not supposed to show your disgust, because if you do, the Scarface will give you this condescending smile: pooh-pooh, I thought you were a woman who's above that, but women always have a dirty mind.

The question, then, is not "Is story telling science?" but "Can science learn to tell good stories?" (p. 50)

Scandal, vice, crime would be played down. Editorials and news stories would be signed. And for the first time, stories of virtue and good will would be featured on the front page.

No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history--until it degenerates into fables.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

All we have are our stories," said Edward.