Stories Quotes - Page 62

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Less than 5% of cancers are related to genes. 95% are influenced by your lifestyle. You are the author of your biological story.

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and those about which I would like to write many more than 600 words. But there is nothing about which I would like to write exactly 600 words.

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

Story ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They're kind of random and haphazard. Often I can't find anything. Somehow, by doing that, even though I don't necessarily refer to them in a specific way, I have some sort of architecture in my head.

We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has a demand on us prior to any government demand on us. And this has been the story of the martyrs through the centuries.

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.