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Stories Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
- If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very…
- A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of…
- I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they…
- There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis.…
- Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.
- My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect…
- When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which…
- The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the…
- Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
- Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human…
- We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.
- When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are…
- Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
- In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become…
- Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people,…
- Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give…
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