Old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Literature is the real life of imaginary people.
Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.
A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
Take me back into the time when I lost track of time!
... 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?...
Some of the best stories start out with a person who absolutely does not want anything to do with an adventure.
Think about how much of your Bible, Old and New Testaments, is in the form not of doctrinal statements but of stories. Statements declare doctrinal truth; stories illustrate doctrinal truth. Doctrinal...
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...
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...
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...
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone...
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...
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...
History is the stories we tell about the past.
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
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