Delusion Quote by Glen Duncan

“Simultaneously (in the inner voice of a female American cultural studies professor): Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no…

— Glen Duncan

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to…

— Flannery O'Connor

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.

— Byron Katie

“talking about the “meaning” of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say different things…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a…

— Tahir Shah

Every person has a story and just because you know a part of it doesn't mean you know the whole story.

— Nishan Panwar

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

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you…

— Sandra Cisneros

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

— Daniel Quinn

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

— Hannah Arendt

“The story, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds... transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their…

— Orson Scott Card

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

— John Edgar Wideman