If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as ‘first and foremost...

The biggest regret I have about ‘Rubicon’ is that we didn’t end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don’t have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle...

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

Kitapus pievelės juodavo vėją užstojanti pušų giraitė, iš už kurios atsklisdavo bangų mūša. Nuožmių Ramiojo vandenyno bangų. Jos ošė sodriais ir niūriais balsais it daugybė susispietusių sielų, šnabždančių kiekviena savo istorijas. Ir atrodė, kad prisidėti...

It’s only a story.’ As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed...

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.

My grandma loved to be on stage entertaining people. She loves to make people smile and laugh. She loves to brighten other people’s day. She often calls perfect strangers her angel, as a way of...

Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.

Genres are what holds each story together and help it along, but in no way should it ever be treated as a boundary, especially for a reader. If I’ve only read science fiction books, I...

All Bette’s stories have happy endings. That’s because she knows where to stop. She’s realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don’t do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a...

Australian Aborigines say that the big stories — the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life — are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and...

The story you live is the ripple you leave.

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

History is story, too. You don’t encounter her directly; you’ve only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I...

The vigor I lacked for physical activities became incandescent when, pen in hand, I filled those pages with invented stories. Sometimes they were intimately about me – family tales, parental exploits – sometimes they became...

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth — yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes...

…the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.

A story is not like a road to follow … it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering...

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories....

There are people.There are stories.The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man,...

Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.

I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

The world would be a sadder place without stories.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

I haven’t. And if I have it doesn’t matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old...

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang...

Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy, but because it had a life of it’s own that continues without me. Children,...

A story has to break your heart or it’s not worth telling.

I feel weird spilling it now but have to. Because after a while, it took root, the way shared stories do when you live with them long enough. They affect your DNA like radiation. They...

holy mother of God! What have I done? How could I have been to casual with my crazy ways?”But the man on the bus just smiles and nods his head, and the casher takes a...

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it … some stories just don’t have a happy ending.

No one could say the stories were uselessfor as the tongue clackedfive or forty fingers stitchedcorn was grated from the huskpathwork was piecedor the darning was done…(from ‘The Storyteller Poems’)

The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with,...

I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me …

Khattam-Shud,’ he said slowly, ‘is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life...

We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is...

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you’re in a sales position, if you’re in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC’s House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.