3,930 Quotes About Stories

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it."[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003]

Great souls encouraged us to be great.

Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.

Every experience is a book to be written.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

Like Desserts, books come in all kinds of tasty treats!

He understands, with a feeling inside him like a wind whipping through a room, that when we lose the stories we have believed about ourselves, we are losing more than stories, we are losing ourselves.