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...
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...
(pl. ) of Story
Properly told, stories are able to operate on two levels. On the surface, they deal with involving a range of facts related to a given time and place, a local culture and a social group--and it is th...
Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page
Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one .
There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.
I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.
I am convinced that if stories such as these have any lasting value, it is in revealing the kind of work young pulp-writers were doing in those days when rates were low and one had to make a typewrite...
The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?
My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.
But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.
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.
It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, th...
Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.
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...
Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wan...
Showing 441 to 460 of 616 results