Telling Stories Quotes

I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself!

Ramana Pemmaraju

When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

Patrick Rothfuss

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.

Don Roff

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Don Roff

I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinking your wine. You don't understand. Never mind.

Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could read. Fragments were true but we needed stories greater than fragments. We needed stories in order to imagine the mad world we lived in.

Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.

Ana Claudia Antunes

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

We testify of what we have experienced and witnessed. May our testimony inspired others to share their story.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When my children were little, always I had to explain things.Now they don't ask much more, have I become more stupid?

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. I could hear a quieter version of them still, from their dark place, through all the other business that occupied my brain, but I wouldn't unlid those boxes until I was ready to hear [his] stories again as they wanted to be heard.

If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will that be considered too intimi-dating? And if the thoughts are proved to be untrue, but your friend still insists on believing in them anyway, would that be considered a cons-piracy?

Ana Claudia Antunes

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

Octavia E. Butler