174 quotes found
“He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.”
“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Sh...”
“Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.”
“But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.”
“I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all goo...”
“I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.”
“For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.”
“Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we know of has a tradition of storytelling. No doubt stories have touched your...”
“Every story has a time to be told”
“We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.”
“A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.”
“As I mentioned briefly on the phone, the best thing about the Air Chrysalis is that it's not an imitation of anyone. It has absolutely none of the usual new writer's sense of 'I want to be another ...”
“This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.”
“Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.”
“Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?”
“They say a story loses something with each telling.”
“What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a liv...”
“My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours it is precisely through ...”
“People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not.""Shouldn't the storyteller believe it.""The storyteller should tell it.”
“If something wants to be a story, it will be.”
