Quotes about Stories

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I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were — Coco J. Ginger
and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. — James Joyce, Dubliners
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet
I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all — Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. — Madeleine L'Engle
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a cl — Gilda Radner
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was ca — Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about — Shannon L. Alder
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortun — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, — Charles de Lint
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say t — Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
You know why love stories have happy endings?” I shake my head.“Because they end too early,” she continues. “They always — Hank Moody, God Hates Us All
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. — Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently — it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. — Terry Pratchett
What doesn't kill us makes us funnier. — Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story
By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth. — Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping
A dwarf will always tell tall stories. — Anthony T.Hincks
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. — Virginia Woolf
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