3,930 Quotes About Stories

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.

So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it –– we all get to dream.

Gratefulness heightens awareness.

Once upon a time, is how stories begin...

Not every day is a writing day! Sometimes all you need is to grab a comfortable corner, have a cup of coffee, read some good writers, and unravel their words with your stories

First, a story ends when it ends, and not a moment before. If you are unhappy with this ending, make a new one.

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.

I wanted to run away and keep running until I was out of this sad, ugly fairy tale. There's only one way to run away from your own story, and that's to sneak into someone else's. I unwedged the leather-bound book from beneath my mattress and breathed in the ink-and-adventure smell of it. I walked through it into another world.

a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then so they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle.