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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.


Jeanette Winterson


#life #stories #life

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.


Anne Fadiman


#books #reading #stories #story #life

I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.


Tim O'Brien


#vietnam #war #life

According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.


Jincy Willett


#stories #life

My standards were, after all, abnormally high." - the fictional ghost of Hugh Hefner, lamenting on sex in the after-life.


Michael Czyzniejewski


#curbside-splendor #hugh-hefner #life

Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a writer sets down can help or harm a community of which he or she is a part. When I write I can imagine a child in California wishing to give away what he’s just seen- a wild animal fleeing though creosote cover in the desert, casting a bright-eyed backward glance or three lines of overheard conversation that seem to contain everything we need understand to repair the gaping rift between body and soul. I look back at that boy turning in glee beneath his pigeons and know it can take a lifetime to convey what you mean, to find the opening. You watch, you set it down. Then you try again.


Barry Lopez


#stories #writing #imagination

Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants.


Jeanette Winterson


#end #fiction #life #reading #stories

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.


Joss Whedon


#perspective #stories #love

True love stories never have endings.


Richard Bach


#love #love stories #never #stories #true

I have stories. But stories are not facts.' 'I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the time they're better than facts.


Morgan Rhodes


#stories #love






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