Stories Quotes
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If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.
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Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do the best job providing a particular service.
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All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
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I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.
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It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
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Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.
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Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?
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History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
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There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.
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I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.
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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
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As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.
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History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
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I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
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A miracle is an invitation into a new story.
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Everything in a story should be credible.
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Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.
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We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.
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In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
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Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would.
