Happiness Quote by Vanessa Booke

“Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.”

— Carmen Maria Machado

“Happy stories are the things we tell to make ourselves feel better. But they are never true.”

— Anni Taylor

“Happiness is.. reading a novel with your Bestie.”

— Vikrmn

“Nobody wants to read happy stories.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.”

— Isabel Allende

“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”

— Andre Gide

“It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It’s not easy to radically alter our views about where…

— Sharon Salzberg

“I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not…

— Lionel Shriver

“This story has a happy ending.”

— Yann Martel