According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.
It isn’t about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.
When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.
People’s lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can’t talk about them.
All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you’re selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell.
We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus.
Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.
At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.
What spares us is memory,” he said. “It’s what makes us worth saving. However low we sink, whatever promise we no longer fulfill, we tell our stories. That’s why you’re so important, Charlie. You’re a guardian of our national memory.
Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.
Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.
The three children had hear the story of the Duene lovers, but they interpreted it differently. And it does not matter, ultimately, what they heard or even what they knew. It is how they interpret the story that will make all the difference.
What good is a song that doesn’t break your heart?
We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.
Every small business has to become a publisher – a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.
Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.
A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.
If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
They weren’t true stories; they were better than that.