But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
Wally LambTag: stories
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.
Stephen KingTag: on-writing stories storytelling great-writing
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It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not only loves the story, but they love you a little bit, too, for telling it so well. Like I love Ms. Washington, in spite of myself, the first time I heard her. When you hear somebody read a story well, you can't help but think there's some good inside them, even if you don't know them.
Katherine HanniganTag: stories
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Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Terry PratchettTag: humor imagination stories literature fantasy
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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.
Neil GaimanTag: books stories endings happy-endings
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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
Tag: truth honesty women lies stories
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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
Diane SetterfieldTag: books writing stories on-fiction fiction
There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
J.K. RowlingTag: stories
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.
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By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.
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