Stories Quotes - Page 37

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change.

It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you're not identified with the story unfolding there.

Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.

We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.

You can make it your excuse, or you can make it your story.

Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.

Everyone has their own story and that’s something I hope for everyone to learn at a young enough age. Just because something is right for someone else doesn’t make it right for you. It’s cooler to be yourself.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel that criticism of my work-which is the most sincere and authentic vision of myself-is unsuitable and immodest, whether it is favorable or unfavorable.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.