Quotes on “stories”

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

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

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.

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

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

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

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

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

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

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.

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.