All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.
(pl. ) of Story
Love your story.
The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing.
A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors...
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
A good story invites us into someone else's world where we learn, discover commonalities, and leave with compassion and understanding.
There were no public articulations of these humiliations, so we took refuge in accidental occasions to weave our resentments and hatreds into little stories that lost their impact as soon as they were...
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fair...
Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everythi...
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is one of the essential constituents of our understanding of reali...
Figuring out was is real isn’t always possible, because our own brains are telling us stories
You think you know this story. You do not.
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the storie...
History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
All stories are true. But some of them never happened.
I have my own stories. A few are known and some untold. Be a tragic one or a comedy one, stories are meant to end at a certain point. Stories... teach us whether we are the option or we are comparing.