A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
Chuck PalahniukAll stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
All of them?
Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
C.S. LewisTags: stories storytelling
But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it."
[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003]
Tags: art writing writers stories fiction creation
I will tell these stories...because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak to these people, and I speak to you because I cannot help it. It gives me strength, almost unbelievable strength, to know that you are there. I covet your eyes, your ears, the collapsible space between us. How blessed are we to have each other? I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words. I will fill today, tomorrow, every day until I am taken back to God. I will tell stories to people who will listen and to people who don't want to listen, to people who seek me out and to those who run. All the while I will know that you are there. How can I pretend that you do not exist? It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist.
Dave EggersTags: inspirational words stories
But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.
Mitch AlbomAll stories are true. But some of them never happened.
James A. OwenTags: perspective stories on-fiction
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: stories
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.
Francis SpuffordTags: stories
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
Vera NazarianTags: world stories dreams story thought dream storytelling memory creation actions memories acting thoughts story-telling speaking acts dreams-of-the-compass-rose enacting shaped shaping telling the-world
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