One of those moments he knew he’d remember and look back on, one of those moments that he’d try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.
But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.
That’s why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they’ll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.
And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don’t just make us matter to each other – maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.
The right story needs the right telling.
As a reader, I don’t feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.
I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.
If you’re going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
Every story you tell is your own story.
Everything starts with a story.
In fact, I don’t even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.
I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don’t care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I’m excited about, I’m in.
I’m scared. I’m excited. I’m ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and become this story, this book for anyone to read.
I’m just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I’ve been through.
I’m not ashamed, or embarrassed. I’m happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from. I feel like I have a history and a story. That’s what I am and that’s what I’ll always be from. I was never running away from it.
I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.