Stories Quotes (page 115)

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• author
• friends life
• about me

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• love
• look
• looking for love

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in. Jeanette Winterson

• mean
• means
• meanness

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Cormac McCarthy

• end
• endings
• thousands

If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman. Federico Garcia Lorca

• mind
• work
• engagement

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story. To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• fear
• mirror
• ours

what are out stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears? Wally Lamb

• writing
• humanity
• sometimes

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• happy
• adventure
• end

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about. Chuck Palahniuk

• old
• faith
• morning

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape. Ray Bradbury

• change
• everything changes
• witnessing

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it. Ram Dass

• single
• never
• shall

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one. John Berger

• long love
• sad
• end

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves. Jack Kerouac

• personal
• author
• city

Here follows the substance of what I said, written out entirely for your benefit. Pay attention to it, or you will be all abroad, when we get deeper into the story. Clear your mind of the children, or the dinner, or the new bonnet, or what not. Try if you can't forget politics, horses, prices in the city and grievances at the club. I hope you won't take this freedom on my part amiss; it's only a way I have of appealing to a gentle reader. Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in... Wilkie Collins

• love
• heart
• broken

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be. Pearl S. Buck

• eating
• eats
• likeness

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes. John Steinbeck