Details Quote by John Green

“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind.…

— Lauren Wolk

I was very concerned about who was going to take my story and realize it, so I was very particular and spent a lot…

— Frida Farrell

“What he had to tell them was a story”

— Daniel Quinn

“Did he really believe God wrote stories that were open to one explanation only? A story that knew but one explanation could hardly be…

— Chaim Potok

“The stories he told became boring to me through repetition, but I understand now that he was just trying to fix that place with…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to…

— John Green

“My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy.…

— Tahir Shah

“He knew it even before he could fully articulate it: between East and West lay a terrain that needed to be charted by stories,…

— Andrew Lam

“No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.”

— Mark Twain

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it,…

— Haruki Murakami

“He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to figure out.…

— Alice Hoffman