#stories

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#conclusions #every #i #i think #japan

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#father #fought #generation #happened #i

People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#attracted #i #kind #living #most

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day. ↗

— Ryan Murphy

#did #get #i #journalist #off

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#contain #first #kinetic #matter #me

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#becoming #father #me #read #right

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#interesting #interesting stories #just #present #qualify

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#greatest #greatest thing #had #modern #stories

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#healers #still #stories #tell #villages