3,930 Quotes About Stories

We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.

Los lectores somos considerados lectores no sólo por leer infinidades de libros de distintos géneros o simplemente uno solo, no. Somos considerados lectores porque amamos la magia de las palabras, el como tenemos sentimientos encontrados con cualquier personaje, el como nos hace sentir cada historia que está escrita ahí, en ese gran y preciado tesoro llamado libro.

I have a FIRM belief that if we don’t share our stories, our experience, our knowledge, our skills, our gifts, our talents that those around us (now) and future generations will repeat our same mistakes.

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

I had seen the world as either white or black.It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal

Like most modern people, we no longer bothered to make the distinction between events in real life and the dramas of fictional worlds, and so the cliff-hanger that inevitably, reliably ended the hour held just as much or more importance to us as the newspaper that usually went from doorstep to garbage bin unread, and we speculated about the future lives of the characters that populated decayed mansions or desert isles as if they weren't inventions of other human minds.

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.