…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.

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it’s about and why...

I have so many different voices and stories to tell.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night’s sleep, and strangers’ monologues framed like Russian short stories.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.”This stopped him. Because they didn’t, did they? That’s one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn’t expect.

I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes.

You should never turn down the offer of another man’s story,’ the fox persisted, moving off a little further into the trees ahead. ‘Stories are the only thing that separates us from the animals after...

Fictions are realities we don’t think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.

But she always kept on until the end. She knew, as i knew, that you don’t stop a story half done. You keep on going, through heartbreak and pain and fear, and times there is...

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story.

Stories don’t care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical...

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