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.
John BergerTags: reading books stories story
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
Diane SetterfieldTags: truth children story myth birth
Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.
Neil GaimanBy Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.
Christopher MooreA story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
Marcus SedgwickTags: stories story storytelling
It's a very remarkable story."
"Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
Tags: humor story remarkable review
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
Roger ZelaznyTags: words reality buddhism history humanity story memory narrative semiotics truthful
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.
Kate DiCamilloTags: stories dark darkness light story
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.
Anne FadimanTags: reading books stories story book
You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
Patricia BriggsPage 1 of 39.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.