#stories

"I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell."

"Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving."

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

"The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well."

"The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death."

"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger."

"Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories."

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."

"A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth."

"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead."

"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."

"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."

"Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self."

"New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours."

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them."

"Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not."

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity."