Stories Quotes

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Tell your story. That’s the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.

I don’t take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people’s stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.