3,930 Quotes About Stories

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.

Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything -- we need only listen.

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra.

Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other. But realityhappens only once.

Given that I don’t know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Or else they are likely going to move on to another book.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

Would you hide something in a story for me?" the mouselike man asked the sculptor. "There are those who seek what I must conceal and would turn the universe inside out to find it.

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book."(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October 1892)