If it’s not your story to tell, you don’t tell it.
I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can’t say, ‘Excuse me, boo,’ as they’re weeping on your bosom.
Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.
A story must be told or there’ll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.
True education is a kind of never ending story – a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
There cannot be any ‘story’ without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.
The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation – This story begins and ends in joy.
If you’re going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you’ll never make a map of it afterwards.
This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.
He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.
Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.
Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people’s stories, it’s easier to understand their demeanor.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one’s own inclination.
And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life – and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.
Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because – like all real love stories – it will die with us, as it should. I’d hoped that he’d be eulogizing me.
Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it.