A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

I prefer a story to a prayer.

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

…stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness...

But we also need stories. Great stories.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it’s just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

Every crack in the sidewalk has a story to tell.

Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these things, but the exhilaration of standing apart from them and being able to...

The Story of the Woman with Three Brothers”A woman once had three brothers. They all had wives, but she was not married. Though she was virtuous and hardworking, her brothers would not offer a dowry....

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity but in a way that is not obvious in a society dominated by what is utilitarian...

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings...

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why should women be any different?

A well told story can be magic. Let me show you…

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

[A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know the story, the real story. And it is simple and cruel and true...

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.The reason for that is that in adult literary fiction, stories are there on...

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world...

It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama: fathers and sons,...

Everyone has a story – find yours!

Having had many years of support from BBC Midlands Today, I’m looking forward to presenting and reporting the stories that matter from my home patch,

I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.

Your kindness shall be rewarded; come to this place after thirteen moons, and you will find something that will be of great benefit in nourishing you and your children to the latest generations.” They did...

I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.

Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild stew we are.

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

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

Sam: I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, ‘Let’s hear about Frodo and the Ring.’ And they’ll say ‘Yes,...

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

Because maybe it’s in the stories that the people we love are still alive.

When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The...

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I’ve done a lot of them.

Jack Into” a better version or experience the story – and our life – in a new way.

Stories are masks of God.That’s a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother’s Grimm.Stories show us how to bear the...

Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways to understand the world around us. Every culture has its creation myth for...

Writing’s funny, it’s like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered...

All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it’s all part of the story we...

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

The real problem with stories – if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

It’s sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.

To maintain your honesty , one must know to keep alive the spirit of chidhood

Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.

I have my own stories. A few are known and some untold. Be a tragic one or a comedy one, stories are meant to end at a certain point. Stories… teach us whether we are...