Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

Il y a bien longtemps, Tigre possédait les histoires. […] Dans les histoires de Tigre, tout ce qui compte c’est la puissance des crocs, la manière dont on chasse et celle dont on tue. Il...

Light a campfire and everyone’s a storyteller

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn’t lack for creativity.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps no coincidence that nature in the Cinderella stories facilitates transformation, for nature itself...

I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally dissolved the writer’s block that had inhibited the author from starting work. I...

I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which we are all trapped. The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing...

Fairy tales for adult readers remained popular throughout Europe well into the 19th century — particularly in Germany, where the Brothers Grimm published their massive collection of German fairy tales (revised and edited to reflect...

One of Scotland’s most important cultural exports – stories.

Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland for their expression, no less than this dilapidated...

Ot minderimle kerevet tahtası arasında sanki kumaşa yapışmış nerdeyse saydamlaşmış bir gazete parçası buldum. Geçmiş bir polis olayını anlatıyordu. Baş tarafı yoktu. Ama, olay herhalde Çekoslovakya’da geçmiş olmalıydı. Adamın biri para kazanmak için bir Çek...

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.

When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by reason – we talk about freeing ourselves from the shackles of the rational mind and that sort...

History is a funny little creature. Do you remember visiting your old Aunt that autumn when the trees shone so very yellow, and how she owned a striped and unsocial cat, quite old and fat...

As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as...

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors’ fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

We read about you to be with you, to walk in someone else’s shoes, to experience another life. Some of those lives are hard, and others are easy, but we’re with you every step of...

Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands.

My stories are often a little mysterious.

If you are present, then you can see that you give yourself presents in each moment that you can unwrap and thoroughly enjoy – the amazing world around us that we can explore, each incredible...

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat. Everything moves towards the end, when the outcome will be known.Poems,...

We are all joined in a circle of stories.

Stories come in all different kinds.” Hester scooted closer, clearly enjoying the subject at hand. “There’s tales, which are light and fluffy. Good for a smile on a sad day. Then you got yarns, which...

There’s no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been attempting to slip something past him. He had had the same disgust with...

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

Les histoires sont des créatures sauvages. Quand tu les libères, qui sait ce qu’elles peuvent déclencher?

I’m going to tell stories to the world. I think there’s time for me to grow. We’ll see.

Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps out reflects an issue in our psyche that requires our attention.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply “there is a book.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

The world of religion isn’t a logical world; that’s why children like it. It’s a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children’s stories or fairy tales.

There is only Love — and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories […]

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Properly told, stories are able to operate on two levels. On the surface, they deal with particulars involving a range of facts related to a given time and place, a local culture and a social...

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal,...

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity…edit one more time!

By Aladdin’s lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.