Story quotes

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◆ Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

- Hilary Mantel100

◆ 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 Gaiman99

◆ Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

- Douglas Pagels99

◆ The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

- Orson Scott Card99

◆ It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

- Kazuo Ishiguro99

◆ There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

- Charles de Lint99

◆ Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stories? To hear them? Who will ever know that I existed? What if we are the only ones left -- who will know our stories then? Who will remember those?

- Carrie Ryan99

◆ No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

- Roger Zelazny99

◆ ...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 Alameddine99

◆ If you own this story you get to write the ending.

- Brené Brown99

◆ He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.

- Chelsie Shakespeare99

◆ No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón99

◆ We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.

- Shauna Niequist99