In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
What I’d like to be is a unique writer who’s different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers’.
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can’t help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.
There’s only one story, the story of your life.
My friends have made the story of my life.
We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.
As long as we have our stories there is hope.
Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told.
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.
Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.
Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?
The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.
I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law-end of story.
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That’s where the story is going and how it’s going to end. Or else you’ll go off in a hundred different directions.
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
If you have half a story and you don’t know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up.