#story

"The truth of the story lies in the details."

"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."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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

"Stories are verbal acts of hospitality."

"It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do."

"I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips."

"It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed."

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

"If you own this story you get to write the ending."

"Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves."

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

"You are never too old to become younger!"

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

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

"As for biblical or religious theory, I don’t ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message."

"The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations."

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds."

"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."

"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."