A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.

Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it...

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.”(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October...

My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.

Our stories are the tellers of us. -Little Bee

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn’t have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted...

[W]e wouldn’t want to read a book about a perfect character who never struggles with character flaws, a difficult past, or interpersonal conflict. Writers can powerfully connect with readers when they venture to these thin...

You have to be careful what you write and not allow self righteousness to cloud your ability to be objective. This story is not about you, it’s about people and things that no one else...

‘The New Yorker’s fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in ‘The New Yorker.’

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a...

We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn’t mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It’s a good calling, then, to speak a better story....

There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth...

Stories are different every time you tell them – they allow so many possible narratives.

I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never...

Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform...

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from...

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can’t see the image of God?

Of course you don’t believe in fairies. You’re fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn’t...

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever...

There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding only three red berries, which peel back in the night to reveal gifts...

When I was a kid, Granpa Portman’s fantastic stories meant it was possible to live a magical life. Even after I stopped believing them, there was still something magical about my grandfather. To have endured...

I’ve always believed in working hard, and I’m grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I’m passionate about telling.

I like small stories.

I don’t like the word ‘allegorical’, I don’t like the word ‘symbolic’ – the word I really like is ‘mythic’, and people always think that means ‘full of lies’, whereas of course what it really...

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

There’s a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of...

You’re going to die, you know.” However much we try to ignore it, our consciousness haunts us with this knowledge. Our heads were baptized in the font of death; they are doused with the horror...

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

The African continent has so many stories to tell, it’s about time they are told, by them – not us.

This love is hard core. Let’s make it soft porn.

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else’s story.

People who understand everything get no stories.

When you write it, don’t write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don’t try to give an explanation. Just say that I don’t know what to make of it, just write it like...

My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.

Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.

We mature not by years, but by stories…” Cinderella In Focus:Cindy’s Secret

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

A book for children, like the myths and folktales that tend to slide into it, is really a blueprint for dealing with life. For that reason, it might have a happy ending, because nobody ever...

What one’s goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.

You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.

And everyone thinks they’re so very special and broken because of them.

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other...

All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them.