Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

I’ve made up so many stories about my name, I can’t remember.

These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went off. The bomb was going to become the story of this...

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

…stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own … you can’t write a story until you’ve felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat.” “Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me.” “But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe me. The human world is made up of stories, not people.

I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI’ll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.

Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.

I believe stories have a will of their own, one that surpasses in volition that of their teller. In realms of Storytelling, stories control their bearers, and eventually, their hearers as well.

I was born into a town and a family and the town ad my family happened to me. I own none of it. It is everyone’s. It is shareware. I like it, I like having...

Si una noche de invierno un viajero, fuera del poblado de Malbork, asomándose desde la abrupta costa sin temor al viento y al vértigo, mira hacia abajo donde la sombra se adensa en una red...

A book is simply a snap shot of the full story.

…but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me...

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

I have stories. But stories are not facts.”I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the time they’re better than facts.

The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is...

Pilon complained, “It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too many lessons in it. Some of those lessons are opposite. There is not a story to take into your head....

Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you...

The next best thing to christmas is…… a story worth reading.

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

…it’s not the stories – it’s the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told …

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

But Alfanhui didn’t want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn’t tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.

True stories can’t be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare...

Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn’t. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.

The stories we pretend do not exist, are the stories that will haunt us till the end.

If the story-tellers could ha’ got decency and good morals from true stories, who’d have troubled to invent parables?

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

Live as if they’re going to tell stories about you.

I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can’t tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don’t have edges. No boundaries.

Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.

All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

How to read this book:Even after I was told my father was dead, I believed (I still believe) that I could fix everything- that if I logged enough miles in my VW and kept telling...

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which...

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives...

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.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it’s what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema...

It’s good to pass on stories.

There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other person, neither a master nor a disciple. I sought an equal...

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story....

When you’re here, an i in the Ocean, you’re no longer waiting for something to happen or to change. When you’re here you have what you seek. Your heart opens to the gift you receive,...

Often, the best stories aren’t when someone pulls one 180-degree turn, but when someone pulls 180 one-degree turns: the stories when someone experiences a slow and, at times, indistinguishable evolution; the stories where a million...

Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you’ll get a hundred different stories.

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.