Certain Quote by Cormac McCarthy

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because…

— Jodi Picoult

The meaning of the story is the story.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Like life, what gives a story its meaning is the fact that it ends. Our stories have lives of their own—and it’s up to…

— Francesca Zappia

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

— Terry Pratchett

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that…

— M. John Harrison

To me a story is a story...I dont even think about where it might belong until long after its written.

— Stephenie Meyer

The metaphors exist for the stories.

— Kurt Busiek

Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's…

— Seth Gabel