The next best thing to christmas is...... a story worth reading.
The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.
(pl. ) of Story
... We would be foolish to say of Miss Moss, for example, that the words female and store owner and tall and thirtyish and kindly an unmarried describe much of real substance about her, isn't that so?...
Seeking for salvation within covers with pages of printed letters
You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are al...
I learn about how stories work for the same reason that soldiers learn how to strip a rifle.You should, too.
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reas...
Stories, whether they're good or bad, are expressions of interactions within society. Some may be seen as 'boring', but in their own right, they are still stories to be explored. People throughout lif...
We create words, words create wonders.
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
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 chaos.
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.
Ah—now you think I have been lying to you, that this is only a story. It has a king in it. And while a story with Death might be true, a story with a king in it is always a fairy tale. But remember, t...
They are not my stories...they are merely mine to tell
I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.
Love that Literature.
Once upon a time I thought I could change stories, make them go the way I wanted, instead of where they actually went.
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 insul...
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.