Quotes About Stories

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven't yet been completely told.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film

This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

We had learned from him and from experience that stories that combine science fiction with philosophy with optimism, with a comment on social issues and an exploration of human values, are the stories that work for Star Trek.

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

demand imbalances. He believed that stories about speculators' raids were essentially ghost stories that brokers told clients to keep them in the dark

I'm from a family of readers. Not of great books, but of great reading

I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels.

To tolerate existence, we lie, and we lie above all to ourselves. Sometimes we tell ourselves lovely tales, sometimes petty lies. Falsehoods protect us, mitigate suffering, allow us to avoid the terrifying moment of serious reflection, they dilute the horrors of our time, they even save us from ourselves.