Stories Quotes - Page 67

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.

The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.

Facts are fine, fer as they go ... but they're like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now - they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.

You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.

If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell.

Make up stories until you find one you can live with.

I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there is no way to live without mythology.

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.