#stories

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. ↗

— Max Frisch

#ending #life #meaning #precisely #proper

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#after #easy #finding #hard #hard work

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. ↗

— Greg Bear

#also #brilliant #charming #could #friendship

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories. ↗

— Amber Benson

#grew #i #i love #just #kid

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#another #dispute #holidays #irish #person

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american-dream #fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #short-stories #women

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#christianity #community #encouragement #example #giving

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart... ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#writing #short-story

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#animal #animals #cruelties #cruelty #fashion

يذكر ما كانت تقوله : معك أشعر أني أذكى من حقيقتي و أنني أجمل . معك لا أحتاج إلى سواك ، لا إلى بشر ولا إلى أشياء ↗

— بهاء طاهر

#lovers #sea #stories #love