Details Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another…

— Mary Lascelles

“This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing…

— Virginia Woolf

“There are stories that are true, in which each individual’s tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we…

— Neil Gaiman

“This is why mysteries are the best kind of stories: because you only get the truth at the very end, when you're absolutely desperate,…

— Sophie Hannah

“There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the…

— Pindar

“There was a girl, and her uncle sold her, wrote Mr. Ibis in his perfect copperplate handwriting. That is the tale; the rest is…

— Neil Gaiman

“All my romances, by some kind of collusion between their heroes, have invariably followed a prearranged pattern of mediocrity and tragedy, or more precisely,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I did not make myself the heroine of my tales. Life appeared to me too common-place an affair as regarded myself. I could not…

— Mary Shelley

“Every story instructs. The teller ignores this truth at peril.”

— Steven Erikson

“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all…

— Herman Hesse

“It’s strange how some folks tell a tale. They go round and round cause the story is a little biddy thing that needs a…

— Leah Weiss