Quotes About Stories

I can write 100 books on the wisdom and lessons from stories in the Bible.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

The music we do is weaved together through stories and life experiences. When people come to hear us, I hope they are are uplifted and that we give them a lot to take home.

I like to tell stories in my writing but I definitely use my own life experiences to tell that story.

I guess the more women are present and out there in life, the more their stories will be told. I don't know. Their stories have always been told on Lifetime.

Brett Favre likes to tell stories.

Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

The part that I loved about radio wasn't getting on the air - it was all this great stuff my listeners would tell me.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.

I have seen so many amazing love stories and engagements and I know how hard it is and how special it is to find that.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

What I really like to do with my music is these concept stories, and I always like to have some life philosophies in the lyrics.

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

When I was little, I used to spend a lot of time making up stories when I was put to bed.

This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As you can see, it's constantly growing and moving as people invent new tales to tell or find new things to believe. The older strands move out to become these spirals, where things tend to become quite crude and dangerous. They've hardened off, you see.

When I say narrative, I do not mean simply the plot, I mean considerably more. Plots and their shapes--the bare outlines of stories--were something I know J.R.R. Tolkien himself was interested in. When I was an undergraduate, I went to a course of lectures he gave on the subject--at least, I think that was the subject, because Tolkien was all but inaudible. He evidently hated lecturing, and I suspect he also hated giving his thoughts away.

You can't alter the past. The only thing you can alter is the future. People write stories pretending you can alter the past, but it can't be done. All you can do to the past is remember it wrong or interpret it differently, and that's no good to us.

There are stories that may be told aloud, and stories that must be told in whispers, and there are stories that are never told at all.

It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls and ceilings. The weight of what has been said can lie heavily on what might yet be said and suffocate it. By the river the air carries the story on a journey: one sentence drifts away and makes way for the next.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.