Stories are rarely only stories

“His stories rarely began in foreign countries, for the minds of listeners cannot easily fly there on their own powers.”

— Hermann Hesse

“His apartment is small and filled with books from the toilet tank to the top of the fridge. I think he has to keep…

— Jennifer Lynch

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

— Daniel Woodrell

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the…

— Terry Pratchett

“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.

— Holly Smale

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency…

— George Lucas

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

— Joyce Maynard

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

— Salman Rushdie

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

— Anderson Cooper

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

— Tim Vine

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

— Jeremy Lin

I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff…

— Sarah Wright