The trouble about jumping was that if you didn’t pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.
If you say you’re worthy, you are. If you say you’re not worthy, you’re not. Either way you will live into your story.
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
Caution is the lower story of prudence.
The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true.
It’s important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.
The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.
He wants to put his story next to hers.
We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.
You can use your story, or your story can use you.
I don’t think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.
I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you’re saying someone else’s words and relaying the story of someone else’s life, it’s not you.
To survive, you must tell stories.
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn’t it what all the great wars and battles are fought for – so that at day’s end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?
The story is not in the plot but in the telling.