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Stories Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked…
- Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above…
- I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war…
- Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must…
- But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to…
- All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and…
- The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not…
- I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are…
- She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I…
- He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.
- …everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not…
- Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a…
- I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became of Princesses, as…
- Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that…
- Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
More Stories Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe