I’m skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty...

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues...

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.

You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you’re making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the...

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care...

People’s lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and… well, sometimes they can’t talk about them.

Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a writer sets down can help or harm a community of which he or...

The great thing about games is that it’s tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.

Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?

It isn’t about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

We tell our stories, especially as young people, in part because we want them to be true. We want life to be full of adventure and creativity and daring that might, just might, be real.

Seeking for salvation within covers with pages of printed letters

Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.

We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Whenever humans try to make...

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The...

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Fiction isn’t truer than life: it just makes a better story.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

And now you’ll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won’t be false, and they won’t be truebut they’ll be real

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

It seemed to us that the fantastic can be, can do, so much more than its detractors assume: it can illuminate the real, it can distort it, it can mask it, it can hide it....

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.We lived in the gaps between the stories.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

a story is ready when it falls from your face

Most stories are based on something real.

From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can’t understand that they end in him, but they don’t end with him.

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside.But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread...

Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go.

All stories are, in some form, prayers.

Being the reader of a dark fairy tale is much like being the hero of one. Our lives are filled with pain, boredom, and fear. We want to venture into the dark wood, to see...

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come second—compare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid...

When we tell our stories, the gods hear our sorrows.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

I will tell these stories…because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak to these people, and I speak to you because I cannot help it. It gives me strength, almost...

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything’s different from our world, don’t you agree? There’s nothing like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we...

Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so on. They reflected what was probably the most urgent truth operating in me...

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

Every small business has to become a publisher—a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the...

Books end. Stories never do.