#story

"Stories are verbal acts of hospitality."

"i immersemyselfin youlikei immerse myselfinto a beautiful story."

"Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story."

"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

"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."

"Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story."

"Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word."

"But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world."

"Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum."

"If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity."

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

"Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is."

"I'm not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that matter, Christianity. Like most religions, it has irreconcilable shortcomings and an unforgivable history. What I do favor is the attempt to make sense of things by living within a story. The Christian story, for good or ill, is my inheritance."

"Cassia.I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.I love you. (Ky Markham)"

"Your love story, I don’t want to give away the ending, but both you and your lover die."

"Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work."

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

"You are never too old to become younger!"

"Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story."

"A little truth seasons a lie like salt."