Stories Quotes (page 2)

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• life
• alone
• kindness

Stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• work
• end
• early

Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation. Richard Russo

• object
• story
• take

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up. Stephen King

• night
• lonely night
• leaving

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. Iain Banks

• humanity
• beauty
• powerful

Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative. Barry Lopez

• love
• courage
• humanity

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. Madeleine L'Engle

• creativity
• life
• powerful

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. Anthony de Mello

• saying
• true
• wellness

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. Neil Gaiman

• imagination
• tending
• imagine

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. Terry Prachett

• true
• facts
• mislead

Stories are always true... it's the facts that mislead. Jeanette Winterson

• suffering
• distribution
• sufferings

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne. E. L. Doctorow

• fashion
• drinking
• rows

Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink. Andrew Morton

• money
• where
• round

Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us. Vic Morrow

• single
• powerful
• power

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit. Howard Gardner

• difficult
• age
• drama

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth. Olympia Dukakis