But bad luck makes good stories.
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
Whatever the story means in the story which I told you, the fact of thinking in terms of stories does not isolate human beings as something separate from the starfish and the sea anemones, the coconut palms and the primroses. Rather, if the world be ...
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live ...
I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in the world, because to share our story we must first accept it. We must own it...
But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not. The people I have known who do that, I am convince...
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, s...
In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each new person in the story, the meddah would change his voice, ...
There's no future in stories...Stories are things of the past, things for museums.
Kalau melihat kesuksesan orang lain, seharusnya kita jangan mau kalah.
Bloodchild" is my pregnant man story.
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.
To my abusers: I forgive you.
People grow, but they don't change.
If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not.
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
Become your own success story, not someone else's.
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
The Bible is the greatest love story ever told.
If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.
