Story Quotes

"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 Morrison

"Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]"

John Green

"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 Gaiman

"You are never too old to become younger!"

Mae West

"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 Zafón

"Cassia.I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.I love you. (Ky Markham)"

Ally Condie

"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

"Your love story, I don’t want to give away the ending, but both you and your lover die."

Jarod Kintz

"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 Setterfield

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

Steve Maraboli

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

Joseph Campbell

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

Chelsie Shakespeare

"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 Pagels

"How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?"To which the man responded, "That's your worry."

Max Lucado

"I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring."

Alysha Speer

"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 Coelho

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

Brené Brown

"He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close."

Chelsie Shakespeare

"The truth of the story lies in the details."

Paul Auster

"Being a writer is a good, good thing."

Shannon Hale

"A little truth seasons a lie like salt."

Jacqueline Carey

"Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work."

Karl Lagerfeld

"Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story."

Steve Maraboli

"But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world."

Umberto Eco

"Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story."

Horacio Quiroga

"Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story."

Charlotte Eriksson

"If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story."

Toba Beta

"New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours."

Alex Morritt

"I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips."

Christopher Vogler

"Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story."

Lionel Shriver

"The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations."

Criss Jami

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds."

The Bhagavad Gita

"Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word."

Don Roff

"It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell."

Natalie Valdes

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

A.D. Posey

"I am scared. I will wait here with you, Cleveland."

Lady in the Water

"I'm so very happy we saw each other."

Lady in the Water

"Your words are very beautiful. Your heart is very big."

Lady in the Water

"Thank you for letting me wear your beautiful shirt."

Lady in the Water

"Do you wish to know your future?"

Lady in the Water

"A boy, in the midwest of this land, will grow up in a home where your book will be on the shelf and spoken of often. He will grow up with these ideas in his head. He will grow into a great orator. He will speak and his words will be heard throughout this land and throughout the world. This boy will become leader of this country and begin a movement of great change. He will speak of you and your words and your book will be the seeds of many of his great thoughts. They will be the seeds of change."

Lady in the Water

"I am scared. It is about to get very dangerous."

Lady in the Water

"Man thinks they are each alone in this world. It is not true. You are all connected. One act can one day affect all."

Lady in the Water

"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh.” The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game."

Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

"We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe."

Courtney M. Privett, Cavelost

"This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade."

Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

"A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend."

Paul Smith

"When we place our immediate conflicts in the territory of an archetypal story we can better see the nature of our problems and find solutions that bring creative imagination to bear in the realm of hard facts and hardening dilemmas."

Michael Meade, The Genius Myth

"Don't envy my smile because it took me a lot of tears to get it. So when you see the glory, ask for the story."

Olawale Daniel

"conversion stories are one of the classic Western narratives about the self."

Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

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