By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.
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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We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forg...
Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at the entrance of the caves and woods and lie in wait for them a long time.
The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe.
A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.
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 explored. People throughout life h...
Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part...
I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.
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...
The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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...
My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, al...
Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories e...
I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.
Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?
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...
Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.
We read about you to be with you, to walk in someone else's shoes, to experience another life. Some of those lives are hard, and others are easy, but we're with you every step of the way. We read abou...