Stories
Quotes - Stories are like spiders
“Myths
do not happen all at once.
They
do not spring forth whole into the world. They form slowly, rolled between the
hands of time until their edges smooth, until the saying of the story gives
enough weight to the words—to the memories—to keep them rolling on their own.
But
all stories start somewhere, and that night, as Rhy Maresh walked through the
streets of London, a new myth was taking shape.”
―
V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light
“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 Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“There
have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no
societies that did not tell stories.”
―
ursula le guin
“I
just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.”
―
Octavia E. Butler
“I
think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event,
which is to say character-driven.”
―
Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“My
gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what
consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at
midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?
When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the
window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you
in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to
your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing,
rocking safety of a lie.”
―
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
“Once
upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who
lost his mother.”
―
John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
“Stories
are both an escape from the truths of the world and the only way to see them
clearly.”
―
Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
“The
Anatomy of Conflict:
If
there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then
there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If
there is no understanding then there is no compassion. If there is no
compassion then there is no empathy. If there is no empathy then there is no
forgiveness. If there is no forgiveness then there is no kindness. If there is
no kindness then there is no honesty. If there is no honesty then there is no
love. If there is no love then God doesn't reside there. If God doesn't reside
there then there is no peace. If there is no peace then there is no happiness.
If there is no happiness ----then there IS CONFLICT BECAUSE THERE IS NO
COMMUNICATION!”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“We
are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to
stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state
of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time
passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to
say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was
possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between
we can create.”
―
Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
“...What
happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves
about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.”
―
Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati
“The
stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in
the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them,
the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.”
―
Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
“What
doesn't kill us makes us funnier.”
―
Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story
“Some
stories, you use up. Others use you up.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“She's
realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough,
they always end in death.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
“I
wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your
stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.”
―
Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
“All
stories are true. But some of them never happened.”
―
James A. Owen, The Search for the Red Dragon
“Fiction
has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue,"
yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even
about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
―
Clark Zlotchew
