Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but she’d dismissed it as a pure...
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...
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I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.
When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say that I don't know what to make of it, just write it like I tell it, so the reader can make...
The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one .
Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad non-truths, even, but he nodded and tried to convince himself to be convinced,...
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.
I have a story to tell you. It has many beginnings, and perhaps one ending. Perhaps not. Beginnings and endings are contingent things anyway; inventions, devices. Where does any story really begin? Th...
Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.
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...
Some of the best stories start out with a person who absolutely does not want anything to do with an adventure.
Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.
I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.
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...
Once upon a time I thought I could change stories, make them go the way I wanted, instead of where they actually went.
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
Old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.
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...