3,930 Quotes About Stories



  • Author Tim O'Brien
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    What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

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  • Author Jane Yolen
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    Read to me riddles and read to me rhymesRead to me stories of magical timesRead to me tales about castles and kingsRead to me stories of fabulous thingsRead to me pirates and read to me knightsRead to me dragons and dragon-book fightsRead to me spaceships and cowboys and thenWhen you are finished– please read them again.

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  • Author Erin Morgenstern
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    He has been reading (or rereading) a great many children's books as well, because the stories seem more story-like, though he is midly concerned this might be a symptom of an impending quarter-life crisis.

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