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Stories Quotes (page 126)

I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters. Sue Monk Kidd
We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then--?' We believed your two hundred dollars.' You mean--' She seemed not to know what he meant. I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right. Dashiell Hammett
Body of earth, don't talk of earthTell the story of pure mirrorsThe Creator has given you this splendor--Why talk of anything else? Rumi
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. Jim Morrison
I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know. Stephen King
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed. Orson Scott Card
Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the liquor weaker, the gods kinder, the dice hotter - it might have all ended up in a one-sentence story. Mickey Rooney
J. K. Rowling quote: "No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you,..."
No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you. J. K. Rowling
Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.) Samuel Beckett
Given the freedom to create, everybody is creative. All of us have an innate, instinctive desire to change our environment, to put our original stamp on this world, to tell a story never told before. I’m absolutely thrilled at the moment of creativity – when suddenly I’ve synthesized my experiences, reality, and my imagination into something entirely new. But most people are too busy working on survival to find the opportunity to create. Fortunately, I’ve been freed by reputation, by the... William Shatner
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?"
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me? Elizabeth Gilbert
Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? Jeanette Winterson
I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are not ended. Capitalism has borne the monstrous burden of the war and today still has the strength to shoulder the burdens of peace. ... It is not simply and solely an accumulation of wealth, it is an elaboration, a selection, a co-ordination of values which is the work of centuries. ... Many think, and I myself am one of them, that capitalism is... Benito Mussolini
Michael Ende quote: "But that is another story and shall be told another time."
But that is another story and shall be told another time. Michael Ende
I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it. P. G. Wodehouse

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