Quotes About Stories

We are tornadoes that pick up fragments with the most varied historical and biological origins. This makes of us -- thankfully -- fickle agglomerations that maintain a fragile equilibrium, that are inconsistent and complex, that can't be reduced to any fixed framework that does not inevitably leave out a great deal. Which is why the more effective stories resemble ramparts from which one can gaze out at everything that has been excluded.

I think of writing now as a long, tiring, pleasant seduction. The stories that you tell, the words that you use and refine, the characters you try to give life to are merely tools with which you circle around the elusive, unnamed, shapeless thing that belongs to you alone, and which nevertheless is a sort of key to all the doors, the real reason that you spend so much of your life sitting at a table tapping away, filling pages.

En los cuentos se hace lo que se quiere y en la vida real se hace lo que se puede.

Volevo scrivere storie piene di spifferi.

I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart . . . But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts . . .

Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.

The things that interest me and the stories I want to write, their factual accuracy is not something I want to make a claim about. I don't want people to know what details are true and which ones aren't. I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.

Like all the stories I wrote at that time, it was based on an unusual atmosphere that had impressed me in real life. I thought that was the point of writing stories: to make up a chain of events that would somehow account for a certain mood—for how it came about and for what it led to.

Ah, ma lei mi ha fatto bere troppo, Monsieur, però in quanto a bicchieri è una buona compagnia. Sa, a volte, quando si è bevuto un po', la realtà si semplifica, si saltano i vuoti fra le cose, tutto sembra combaciare e uno dice: ci sono. Come nei sogni. Ma a lei perché interessano le storie altrui? Anche lei deve essere incapace a riempire i vuoti fra le cose. Non le sono sufficienti i suoi propri sogni?

A person who articulates stories or generates pictures to evoke or provoke human emotion to secretly do either a product promotion or gain self publicity is the worst to trust by the people.

News channels both mainstream and social media are battling for its survival as its credibility has already gone below ground to minus level. but instead of doing something for citizens trust revival on its reports, media continues to dig deeper hole for itself through dubious stories shovel and has become completely nude & shameless by throwing all its towel.

The level of brand publicity has gone so low that they can even weave the fabricated stories of atrocity or molestation to do product or services sales promotion.

Stories wander around, go from one land to another, sometimes parts change.

These are not stories about girls getting what they want sexually, they are stories about girls gaining acclaim socially, for which their sexuality is a tool.

Wirklichkeit besteht aus miteinander geteilten Geschichten.

I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts...I was, you see, at the start of this tale, a person with history. I had no story of my own. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other people's lives.

Most everything in Grandma's house had a story, but the basket was full of them! The basket contained buttons . . .all sizes, shapes, colors, and kinds.

The Grandma's Attic Series In Grandma's Attic More Stories from Grandma's Attic Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic Treasures from Grandma's Attic

I realized that writing something is different from saying it — and that love stories are built around people's idiosyncrasies.

Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

I Twitter quite a bit, and try to send out some funny stories.