Stories
Quotes - All stories told have been told before
“We're
all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what
will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I
suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.”
―
Charles de Lint
“There's
always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a
story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”
―
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
“When
male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”
―
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet?
“The
unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader,
reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
―
Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women,
Places
“Every
story needs its hero. And its villain. And its monster.”
―
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“I
write to find strength.
I
write to become the person that hides inside me.
I
write to light the way through the darkness for others.
I
write to be seen and heard.
I
write to be near those I love.
I
write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper.
I
write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.
I
write past the embarrassment of exposure.
I
write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to
heal.
I
write myself out of nightmares.
I
write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.
I
write to remember.
I
write knowing conversations don’t always take place.
I
write because speaking can’t be reread.
I
write to sooth a mind that races.
I
write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.
I
write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.
I
write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very
long.
I
write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.
I
write to provide a legacy.
I
write to make sense out of senselessness.
I
write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified
by both misunderstanding and understanding.
I
write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the
dreamers.
I
write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of
time.
I
write because God loves stories.
I
write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live
on.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“You
don’t think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?”
―
Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“Hold
it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the
three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat
Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?”
―
Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
“All
stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men
who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the
names.”
―
Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
“Stories
are a different kind of true.”
―
Emma Donoghue, Room
“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 Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
“As
for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had
spun them, and were flecked with little truths - intrusions of reality into
fantasy, like toast crumbs on a wizard's beard.”
―
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
“Every
story has four parts: the beginning, the middle, the almost-ending, and the
true ending. Unfortunately, not everyone gets a true ending. Most people give
up at the part of the story where things are the worst, when the situation
feels hopeless, but that is where hope is needed most. Only those who persevere
can find their true ending.”
―
Stephanie Garber, Finale
