While the stories are fiction, the journey is real.

And so he set about restoring them, using the tricks he had learned over the years. He went to them, speaking to each of them in tones so low that none of the others could...

Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man – let me offer you a definition – is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he...

Stories nowadays are put in to squares, just like everything else. Stories are ever changing. They are like rivers that flow, but mankind is busy trying to dam them up and as a result, they...

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

But here’s a great thing about stories: they can be retold.

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our people’s stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and...

Stories are light.

People like to say how much they like stuff, but with ‘The Sunset Tree,’ people shared stories about what it meant for them. And that stuff’s so humbling and amazing.

She reminded me that I could write stories,/could be struck by lightning & live.

But those are just words, and words are just stories, and eventually, always, stories come to an end.

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there.It’s the magic of fiction: you...

As a woman, a lot of stories haven’t been told and we’ve got a lot of catching up to do.

What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?

I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end.

I’d love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn’t it what all the great wars and battles are fought for — so that at day’s end a family may...

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

I’ve always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.

I’ll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.

The three children had hear the story of the Duene lovers, but they interpreted it differently. And it does not matter, ultimately, what they heard or even what they knew. It is how they interpret...

Love is the story and the prayer that matters the most.

…the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably....

People think “monsters” are born without origin. But it is the monsters that have the greatest stories to tell…

That’s the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget it, sometimes totally forget it, in order to go about the rest of your day.

There’s no future in stories…Stories are things of the past, things for museums.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea– do I have to choose between the two?

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

I’m beginning to feel as though everything has happened before, that our story has already been told. Just as we were powerless to stop the fox stealing the chicken, so there seems to be an...

You keep your followers confused when you begin very well and give up too early… Suspense is useful in movies, but useless when writing your success stories!

Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.

It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

…stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.

Careful with what you know and what you experience. Sometimes, closed mouth with memories is better than opened mouth with stories.

No story is ever the whole story.

The story of a man’s soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation

People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real, and some as fiction. But she honored...

Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.

We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health…), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation—and born into the stories told of each of these.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?””Stories. And they give me hope.

That’s the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it’s logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.

Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is one of the essential constituents of our understanding of reality. From the time...

Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you’re dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don’t trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.