Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.

You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.

And everyone thinks they’re so very special and broken because of them.

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other...

All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them.

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.

…the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I’m a heart whisperer…

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a...

The shadow of a character is defined by its maker…while a heroine is personified by its actions and relatability. So writers can create a world with a heroine that has impact and finish with everessence...

I’m a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn’t like to play myself.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

You are the stories you tell, whatever their basis in fact or experience. It’s who you are.

Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while...

My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the...

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they’re best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish – we’re famous for travelling in search of adventure.

Don’t ever get to the point where you can’t be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them…...

People who care nothing for their country’s stories and songs,’ he said, ‘are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people

I glance into the faces of all these people out for a Sunday stroll, but I’m not seeing eyes and noses and mouths. I’m seeing stories. Every person has a story. All the hopes and...

Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.

Without stories, we’d have even more trouble recognizing what’s real.

Stories,’ the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, ‘are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

Life is a journey; let’s enjoy it, seeing some exciting things, and having fun along the way.

And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams.And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.

There is no ‘what if’. Only in stories.

Everyone’s got a different story.

Day 72I remember oranges and you don’t mind me leaving the queue momentarily to find some. When you say, Of course, you reach for my arm in sympathy and recognition. This may be the thing...

How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.

In dreams and stories we rearrange our lives.

I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, ‘Witches of East End’ is really grounded. It’s not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.

You have a long history,” he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. “Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories...

… a writer concocts a different story for every reader.

Life has no happy endings, actually, no endings at all, just an ongoing series of beginnings. A story—whether it’s happy or sad, whether it makes sense or not, what its meaning is—depends entirely on where...

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as...

You can’t love someone without imaginative sympathy, without beginning to see the world from another point of view. You can’t be a good lover, a good artist or a good politician without this capacity (you...

I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that become history...

Yes”, Kumiko said, seriously. “Exactly that. The extraordinary happens all the time. So much, we can’t take it. Life and happiness and heartache and love. If we couldn’t put it in story – “”And explain...

When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a story about her. This usually worked; and if her...

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off...

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it.”[Peter...

No matter how “normal” people look, living “ordinary” lives, everyone has a story to tell. And may be, just like you, everyone else is a misfit too.

Stories start in all sorts of places. Where they begin often tells the reader of what to expect as they progress. Castles often lead to dragons, country estates to deeds of deepest love (or of...

He. Does there have to be a he? It seems weak and unoriginal doesn’t it, for stories told by girls to always have a he?

I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.