Story proverbs

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◆ To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

- Ursula K. Le Guin98

◆ The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.

- Joseph Bruchac98

◆ Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

- Anne Fadiman98

◆ By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

- Christopher Moore98

◆ Being a writer is a good, good thing.

- Shannon Hale98

◆ I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.

- Dorothea Benton Frank98

◆ A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

- Marcus Sedgwick98

◆ Just that maybe … maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds.

- Ann Voskamp98

◆ Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.

- Sarah Kay98

◆ Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

- Nicholas Sparks98

◆ The truth of the story lies in the details.

- Paul Auster98

◆ Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

- Charles de Lint98

◆ A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

- Jacqueline Carey98

◆ As for biblical or religious theory, I don't ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.

- Steve Maraboli98

◆ A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

- Robert McKee98