3,930 Quotes About Stories

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

Every person has a story, but those who show discipline and start writing become authors.

You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at last, the one that ends in joy.

Can you imagine a world without books to read?

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.