174 quotes found
“Its a long story. Ill make it short as I can.”
“The seventh reader interrupts you: "Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could only end in two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and ...”
“When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whol...”
“Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one sto...”
“You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was too young and so was I. A thi...”
“I'd prefer her story than history.”
“We are all inclined to accept conventional forms or colours as the only correct ones. Children sometimes think that stars must be star-shaped, though naturally they are not. The people who insist t...”
“Stories are a kind of theme park of mortality. Deadnyland.”
“No one like the Incomplete Stories, so does the God :-)”
“No one likes incomplete story, so does the God :-)”
“some stories are sudden like an inhale, some are overcoming like the tides, some, we name mistake, some are called lessons. Stories...tragic, romantic, comedy. We make them, they make us .”
“We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.”
“So whats your story? Ryan asks.Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. My story?Yeah. Everybody has at least one.”
“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
“I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong one...”
“If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.”
“Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.”
“Propositions are to stories (and to reality) as powdered milk is to what comes from the udder. Propositions are dried-out stories with much of the vitality removed. They may say something technical...”
“He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.”
“Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.”
