Quotes and sayings about tag  #stories

Quotes and sayings about tag  stories

23 Quotes

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

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. Alder

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

Diane Setterfield

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

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Haruki Murakami

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Haruki Murakami

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

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

Hilary Mantel

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

John Berger

You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.

John Green

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Joss Whedon

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

Marian Keyes

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Neil Gaiman

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

Octavia E. Butler

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Patrick Ness

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Philip Pullman

I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.

Sarah J. Maas

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Terry Pratchett

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

I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

Victoria Schwab

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

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