We ourselves, will resurrect the memory in order to savor it and carry it forth into the world. We will fling it at one another for laughs. Distort it. We will toss the story into the air at parties a...
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
(pl. ) of Story
The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.
I am not here to compete in the war of words, I am here to nurture the future of stories.
Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insul...
Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder...
I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes.
What doesn't kill us makes a good story.
A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.
Stories choose us, not the other way around.
Are infinite possibilities a storyteller's worst enemy or best friend? I'd say a bit of both really and one must be grateful for this paradox.
The universe is made of stories, not atoms!
Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air?Then all we are left with are stories.
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?
All Stories are True.
Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either, but it was a reassuring story: that the dead were not entirely dead...
I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...
Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.
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