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.
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...
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There is a love that binds us allIt's in our blood, it's who we areand it's nested in the branches of this treeand it's rooted in the Earth where we keepall of our stories
A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves u...
Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are ot...
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
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.
From an author's point of view, the most painful and dangerous weapon ain't no gun or blade, but a piece of paper with the word rejected on it.
Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will.
The vast majority of you are going to close this tab without, even for a single moment, entertaining the thought of writing something. Step outside your comfort zone and try something new. Learning th...
Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air?Then all we are left with are stories.
I really do feel like I was born to write and tell 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...
The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.
Some stories end in despair, some begin there
Not everything is a love story.
Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?
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