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Stories Quotes by Elif Safak
- Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other…
- Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we…
- The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we…
- Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can…
- God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.
- For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.
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