No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.
As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn’t get it right.
The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I’ve written about a lot.
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
I don’t like books that play to the gallery, but I’ve become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old – it is the new combinations that make them new.
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
I just thought, there are very few stories involving me, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jesus.
What do we want from each other after we have told our stories.
Short stories demand a certain awareness of one’s own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.
Everyone has their own story and that’s something I hope for everyone to learn at a young enough age. Just because something is right for someone else doesn’t make it right for you. It’s cooler to be yourself.
I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.
There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
If you want to know someone’s story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It’s new, even to me.
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone’s not reading your story right now?
Once you call something a story, it’s set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can’t be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it’s not the same story anymore.
Maybe the reason I’ve never died in this story is that I’ve never had something worth dying for before.
The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story.