#stories

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

"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you."

"That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."

"I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope."

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

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

"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 stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth."

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

"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."

"Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra."

"It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know."

"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."

"We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything."

"What doesn't kill us makes us funnier."

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

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

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

"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open."

"Maybe stories are just data with a soul."