Story Quotes

“On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.

Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk?

He is covered with an umbrella, and all you can see is a dark coat and the shoes striking the puddles.

And yet this person is the hero of his own life story.

He is the love of someone’s life.

And what he can do may change the world.

Imagine being him for a moment.

And then continue on your own way.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.”
― Isaac Babel

“Only write a story that only you can write. ”
― Alysha Speer

“One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we leave behind are as important as the path we will follow. They’re part of the same journey — our story.”
― Lori R. Lopez, Dance of the Chupacabras

“Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“But what if the story should quit while it’s ahead?” “How do you know unless you give the story another chance?”
― Adam Silvera, What If It's Us

“Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

“For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.”
― CLAMP, xxxHolic, Vol. 2

“I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips.”
― Christopher Vogler, The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 2nd Edition

“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Don't worry. Just when you think your life is over, a new story line falls from the sky and lands right in your lap.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down

“Sometimes when we say "God is silent," what's really going on is that he hasn't told the story the way we wanted it told. He will be silent when we want him to fill in the blanks of the story we are creating. But with his own stories, the ones we live in, he is seldom silent.”
― Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World

“Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths...”
― Rollo May

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.”
― Philip José Farmer

“I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.”
― Pam Houston

“If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love.”
― Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World

“If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.”
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

“Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

“We are all joined in a circle of stories.”
― Linda Joy Myers, Journey of Memoir: The Three Stages of Memoir Writing

“While I cannot prevent the birds from flying over my head, I can prevent them from making a nest in my hair. - Chapter 5 My Cinderella”
― Santosh Avvannavar, The Departing Point: Two people departed...in search of love...leaving love in between

“I hated him, loved him, wanted him, and yet I wished him away. So many conflicting emotions of wants and needs. So much fear. Not because of him, but because of myself—of how deep my feelings and desires were running, and how much I would fall if I happened to lose my grip.”
― J.C. Reed, Conquer Your Love

“Stories, particularly the bad ones, are told in their own time.”
― Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

“We live in the world we made up.”
― Jim Paul, Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon

“It was years ago now, on a warm summer night,
When the boy came out of the sea.
His skin was blue and his hair was white,
And he was in love with me.
He was wild and true, and right then I knew
That he was in love with me.

In our ship we sailed for years on the ocean,
Unfettered and totally free.
And he gave all his days to his endless devotion,
For he was in love with me.
I called it a phase and made endless delays,
Though he was in love with me.

One day the waves swept him right off the ship
And dropped him into the blue.
As his skin turned to water, his hair into fish,
He asked if I loved him too.
Too late I called through the wind and the water,
'I was always in love with you.'
I was always in love with you.”
― Traci Chee, The Reader

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.”
― A.D. Posey

“A timeless classical love story
our romance shall be…
I'll paint it
on vintage canvas
cause your love transcends the realms
defeats any measure of time
and lasts forever.

(fragment from "Utopia", chapter Hope)”
― Claudia Pavel, The odyssey of my lost thoughts