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Stories Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.
- Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of…
- Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and…
- True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe…
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
- Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's…
- Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
- The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We…
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is…
- Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.
- Trust me, I'm telling you stories.
- I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than…
- Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a…
- I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.
- We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth…
- Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your…
- Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.
- There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to…
- It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange…
- Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As…
- I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is…
- I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what…
- This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
- Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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