In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no...

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

so little of what anything means comes through words.

The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.

There’s more to stories than it seems at first looking,” she said. “Two sides to most stories. Folks better be thinking about that for once.

The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can’t the people who are descendants of the Bible be...

I like telling stories.

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

It’s what makes us worth saving. However low we sink, whatever promise we no longer fulfill, we tell our stories. That’s why you’re so important, Charlie. You’re a guardian of our national memory.

Soll ich dir eine Geschichte erzählen? Nein.Warum nicht? Der Junge sah ihn an und wandte den Blick ab.Warum nicht? Diese Geschichten sind nicht wahr. Das müssen sie auch nicht sein. Es sind Geschichten. Ja. Aber...

Well written novels are penned by authors who have a unique and personal ardor for their story. They fabricate the phrases of their mind into a voice and thus a character is born.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

Stories carry things. A lesson or moral. Information or a take-home message.

What doesn’t kill us makes a good story.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the...

I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer; I cast my girlfriends in parts, and I suggested to the local kindergarten...

If we don’t tell our own stories, no one else will.

I think I’m still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal–stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine...

Think of all the stories you’ve heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His parents are killed he sets out for vengeance. What next?”Bast hesitated, his expression puzzled. Chronicler answered the question instead....

We’re all stories in the end.

I’m sorry to burden you,’ she said. She felt like a crybaby.’What can we do with our stories,’ he said, ‘but tell them?

There are always two sides to a story.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the...

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

Here, there isn’t much but stories and rain. And a fella can get tired of the rain.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to...

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive… Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can’t...

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

People ask me all the time, “Where do your ideas come from?” So, to clear up this question…I keep my ideas inside the mind of a tiny man who is tied up in my closet!

A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading towardone inevitable conclusion

There’s always more to the story, Catriona,” She replied. “That’s the wonderful thing about stories.

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge...

JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest meaning closer to the truth?LENORE: I smell trap.JAY: I smell breakthrough. The truth is that there’s no difference between...

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.

With family dramas, it’s hard to keep those stories alive.

Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise...

Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or narratives. Stories are how we inspire and motivate human beings. Great stories help...

There wasn’t a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words…

The problem with secrets is that they don’t want to stay that way. They say information wants to be free. And maybe that’s the case. But what I do know is that every story wants...

I want to do stories that inspire people.