Once upon a time I thought I could change stories, make them go the way I wanted, instead of where they actually went.
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...
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We create words, words create wonders.
When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.
Take me back into the time when I lost track of time!
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don...
Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Some stories are true that never happened.
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...
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page
Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stories, simple stories dealing with the stuff of life...
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the...
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passi...
If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more...
What's usual for us may not be the same for everyone. I'm inspired by lives and stories of all those amazing people who overcome extraordinary challenges each day to live what we see as an ordinary li...
A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves u...
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