Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.
The stories we are destined to tell find us.
A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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...
What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other.
All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close, they continue.
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...
Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of abs...
Many more have died of attempting love than victory, and countless numbers hate love more than war. Honor has often been the dear prize awarded to the killers of lovers. The epics of war have always a...
No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!
A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble)
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories.
Stories are a communal currency of humanity.
I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
Without desire how is it possible to make a story?