I don’t like the word ‘allegorical’, I don’t like the word ‘symbolic’ – the word I really like is ‘mythic’, and people always think that means ‘full of lies’, whereas of course what it really...

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

There’s a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of...

You’re going to die, you know.” However much we try to ignore it, our consciousness haunts us with this knowledge. Our heads were baptized in the font of death; they are doused with the horror...

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.

Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it...

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.”(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October...

My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.

Our stories are the tellers of us. -Little Bee

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn’t have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted...

[W]e wouldn’t want to read a book about a perfect character who never struggles with character flaws, a difficult past, or interpersonal conflict. Writers can powerfully connect with readers when they venture to these thin...

You have to be careful what you write and not allow self righteousness to cloud your ability to be objective. This story is not about you, it’s about people and things that no one else...

We mature not by years, but by stories…” Cinderella In Focus:Cindy’s Secret

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

A book for children, like the myths and folktales that tend to slide into it, is really a blueprint for dealing with life. For that reason, it might have a happy ending, because nobody ever...

What one’s goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

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...

Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you’ve overcome is your ticket into leadership. It’s what you’re meant...

The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never...

There are subtle truths buried in every make-believe. You never know where you might find one.

The African continent has so many stories to tell, it’s about time they are told, by them – not us.

This love is hard core. Let’s make it soft porn.

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else’s story.

People who understand everything get no stories.

When you write it, don’t write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don’t try to give an explanation. Just say that I don’t know what to make of it, just write it like...

My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.

Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.

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.