Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating lies, untold violence. Bold, brash stories about reclaiming our bodies and changing the world.
But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers ...
I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tan...
To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories. And humans loved stories, because once you'd t...
I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewrit...
My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not m...
Atari is a very sad story.
Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.
And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.
Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates.
It takes courage and maturity to realise your own story.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
I always have the best story at the party. Anyone telling a story at a party is like, 'No, no, you've got to listen to my story!' I'm like, 'Step aside, everybody. I'm going to blow the doors off this place.'
I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.
We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
