Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so on. They reflected what was probably the most urgent truth operating in me at...
Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.
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I am not here to compete in the war of words, I am here to nurture the future of stories.
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
We're wired for story. In a culture of scarcity and perfectionism, there's a surprisingly simple reason we want to own, integrate, and share our stories of struggle. We do this because we feel the mos...
My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.
But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.
Every good story needs a good, bad and lost soul. A people to fight for, an item to turn the tide of battle, an enigmatic character, a motivator/mentor, and an unlikely reluctant hero.
I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.
And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.
A casket full of stories I presentFrom the ocean of my feelings and its moodSome bring with it a tempest of tearsSome make you sit and broodThere are a few pearls of optimism tooWhich are colourful an...
If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed.
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...
What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make thin...