…not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller’s tale may end, but history goes on always.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

Some stories end in despair, some begin there

But you’re an artist. you should know there’s more to a story than the part happening right now.

I eat stories like grapes.

David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can....

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn’t really mind–or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a...

If ever you feel lost, terrified, alone, emotionally and physically drained…when you feel like depression has overpowered you, and that the world itself, has devoured you…just remember that you are not alone, you are loved,...

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

They help me understand myself better.

We have story-makers and we have writers apparently most of the today’s writing falls into the first category.

Thomas Builds-the-Fire’s stories climbed into your clothes like sad, gave you itches that could not be scratched. If you repeated eve a sentence from one of those stories, your throat was never the same again....

If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won’t save it.

Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That’s what stories are for....

I’ve been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it’s no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how...

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and...

I love it when there’s nothingLeft to see but tiny spots of what’s still lightStories piercing the night.

Wit smiled. “All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

her daughter”.

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.

There’s a chasm between writing about yourself and writing about your personal life. A lot of young writers want to turn their lives into stories, into films, books, because they feel their lives are somehow...

This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!

What I’m always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces – the ghost stories that engaged us.

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact, storytelling may be a primary way in which we can linguistically communicate to others—as well as to ourselves—the...

Stories are a different kind of true.

What a storyteller does is *see* more than most of us. We say he’s making up his stories, but he—or better yet, *she*—watches more carefully, and then tells us what we would have seen ourselves...

U nekom trenutku sve priče postaju iste, kaže pripovedač, i sve vode do istog cilja. Veština je u tome, kaže pripovedač, da se onaj koj sluša ili čita priču navede na pomisao da je priča...

According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.

It made a romantic tale. The young rouge, cheating death, returning to his grieving lover. But in reality? Ashyn had always known life did not resemble one of her book stories or Moria’s bard tales,...

…what your life means depends on how you tell the story.

people are not separate from their stories .people and living by any style gives birth of stories

I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreciate the stories she told me until I became adult, and by then I had to make do...

It’s my business,” he said. Pouted. Looked at the ground.If you only eat unsalted food, fresh food, we believe you make Lasirèn vexed, for salt is the creatures of the sea, and good for the...

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what couldI tell her about those things that she didn’t already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating...

To call up modern versions of the old stories, one has to go forth and live life. As a result then, one will have the challenge of not only living the story, taking it all...

He knew all the stories. His grandfather had given them to him when he sat between the old man’s knees as a child. It was a comfort, though, to hear them again. To call them...

They rode up the faint marks of the old trace where thousands of sojourners walking and riding both had crossed it and before them the buffalo far back in time. She joined the stream of...

Their story, yours, mine – it’s what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them.

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn’t reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn’t need to — because, given the right conditions, the...

We all tell stories–to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.

History is the stories we tell about the past.

Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have – a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion.

If folks don’t like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up their own stories

Why do bad things happen to good people?”Because it makes a good story.