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.

She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.

Most people don’t know how to tell stories.

Writers remember everything…especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he’ll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent...

Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky pen, use it. If you speak with more force and wit when wearing...

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.