Story sayings

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◆ Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

- Toni Morrison99

◆ But how could you live and have no story to tell?

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky99

◆ Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

- Neil Gaiman99

◆ You are never too old to become younger!

- Mae West99

◆ ... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

- Shannon Hale99

◆ A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón99

◆ Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

- Kate DiCamillo99

◆ All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

- Diane Setterfield99

◆ Until a few days ago, humans had been little more than legend to him, and now here he was in their world. It was like stepping into the pages of a book -- a book alive with color and fragrance, filth and chaos -- and the blue-haired girl moved through it all like a fairy through a story, the light treating her differently than it did others, the air seemed to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place was a story about her.

- Laini Taylor99

◆ If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

- Joseph Campbell99

◆ Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

- Arundhati Roy99

◆ Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ 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 Guin99