Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the route to becoming. All the magic and glass mountains and pearls the size...

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.

The stories, though, they were all mine.

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with...

We create words, words create wonders.

I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.

A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.

[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr][Niels] Bohr’s sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately,...

Sweep my dreams not beneath my feet. Be somewhere that my steps won’t meet. Breaking the broom isn’t a must. Don’t mistake unmoved dreams for dust

A story must be told or there’ll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

It takes courage and maturity to realise your own story.

Even if you’re in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It’s important to keep telling yourself stories.

My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when...

The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. … It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.

I have no way of knowing whether you, who eventually will read this record, like stories or not. If you do not, no doubt you have turned these pages without attention. I confess that I...

We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus.

Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people.

…Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo...

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek...

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device – recording and projecting.

I’m interested in things women do that aren’t spoken about. Manto’s stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by...

A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.

I’m skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty...

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues...

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.

You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you’re making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the...

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care...

People’s lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and… well, sometimes they can’t talk about them.

Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a writer sets down can help or harm a community of which he or...

The great thing about games is that it’s tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.

Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?

It isn’t about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

We tell our stories, especially as young people, in part because we want them to be true. We want life to be full of adventure and creativity and daring that might, just might, be real.

Seeking for salvation within covers with pages of printed letters

Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.

We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Whenever humans try to make...

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The...

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Fiction isn’t truer than life: it just makes a better story.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.