#tories

It was cold on that Monday, January 23rd, when a little boy was born, in case you haven't heard. An infant that would become the future Dr. Jim. And all the people of the world would fall in love with him. ↗

— Scott Thomas Nicol

#love

We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus. ↗

— Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#motivating-story #stories #story-teller #story-telling #motivational

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. ↗

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#power #stereotypes #stories #stereotypes

I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#witty

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#witches

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#encountered #going #i #lands #learned

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#coming #death #end #freedom #haunt

This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start! ↗

— Hiro Mashima

#stories #friendship

By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#stories #story #humor

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. ↗

— Colum McCann

#literature #untold-stories #life