Stories
Quotes - It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was
“Every
story has four parts - the beginning, the middle, the almost ending, and the true
ending.”
―
Stephanie Garber, Legendary
“I
wore your promise on my finger for one year
I'll
wear your name on my heart til I die
Because
you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.”
―
Coco J. Ginger
“We
who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies
that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we
can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who
will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a
different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or
kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
“Writers
remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point
to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones
you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a
writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of
every scar.
Art
consists of the persistence of memory.”
―
Stephen King, Misery
“Stories
make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
―
Madeleine L'Engle
“My
father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of
mankind.”
―
Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
“That’s
how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only
one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like
Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“We
owe it to each other to tell stories.”
―
Neil Gaiman
“A
good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”
―
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
“The
reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their
stories.”
―
Carl Gustav Jung
“Don't
lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false,
tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what
does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are
significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see
clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light,
blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every
object.”
―
Albert Camus, The Fall
“There
are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is
the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the
silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a
rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the
silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can
emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano
with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of
a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may
be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a
laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay.
Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in
the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.”
―
Beryl Markham, West with the Night
“All
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.”
―
Margaret Atwood
“People
think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
“It's
impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can
never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many
parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this
or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors,
in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many.”
―
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
“What
would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The
world would split open.”
―
Muriel Rukeyser
“Every
fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.”
―
Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen
“The
point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of
the story is truer than reality. Those who mock fiction do so because they fear
the truth.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold
“One
of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know
they are not alone.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“Most
have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be
remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of
both.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
