3,930 Quotes About Stories

Would it have made a difference?This is the question we always ask after we have given up.

Perhaps we shouldn't be displeased with the 'environmental ethics' we have or the 'business ethics' or the 'political ethics' or any of the myriad of other codes of conduct suggested by our actions. After all, we've created them. We've created the stories that allow them to exist and flourish. They didn't come out of nowhere. They didn't arrive from another planet.

Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.

The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.

Stories are the thing which shapes our kinky and wicked minds.

A sweet kiss on her head made her little heart swell; she had pancakes, her dog. She had love. All was well.

... Within the mind, especially the mind under great stress... boundaries of space and time are meaningless, and the... interior self lives by other rules and in other dimensions.

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?