I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes...
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...
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The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe.
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
If books/stories and movies are going to be judge as for the personality of people so... Doctor Sleep and Nightmares and Dreamscapes... should make Stephen King the world top1 insane person, ever live...
Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will.
A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.
The next best thing to christmas is...... a story worth reading.
You can never know enough about your characters
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never diffic...
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,...
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegor...
This is a bad story.Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.No, you should, I say.But—I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.
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.
What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
You think you know this story. You do not.
Old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
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