stories

Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it,but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Stories, whether they're good or bad, are expressions of interactions within society. Some may be seen as 'boring', but in their own right, they are still stories to explored. People throughout life have more exciting endeavours than others, and that can be the same for stories. It's just a matter of segregating comparisons between the senseless and the thoughtful. The norm and the unbiased. We are what we are. As are stories.

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

Stories are just lies made to look like truth.

That's the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget it, sometimes totally forget it, in order to go about the rest of your day.

The shadow of a character is defined by its maker...while a heroine is personified by its actions and relatability. So writers can create a world with a heroine that has impact and finish with everessence lights at the dims of its shadows

When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.

Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems.

I want the real story, the one that won__ make it into the history books or the scientific journals.___nd you think I__ the man to tell it, do you?___f you were actually there, you are most definitely the person to tell it. You__e absolutely right. There have been plenty of stories. The trouble is, every account is different. Most of them are second or third hand. I don__ know . . . I guess I figured, maybe since you weren__ in such a rush to tell your version, it might be the closest to the truth.__arvey chuckled heartily. __ell, I can__ argue with that logic, son. Despite my choice of reading materials . . ._ he nodded towards the adventure novel he__ set down, a recent translation of the French novel by Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, ____e never been one for unnecessary embellishment. You want the God__ honest truth? In this particular case, there__ no need. It__ a hell of a goddamn story._ I was already flipping open a notebook and licking the tip of a sharpened pencil to take notes. I may have been salivating.

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.

I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them.

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights)

A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves us, as any marriage would, and just as no marriage is exactly the same as another, so each of us interprets a story differently, feels for it differently. A story calls upon us...as individuals-and we like that. Stories benefit the human mind.

I am convinced that if stories such as these have any lasting value, it is in revealing the kind of work young pulp-writers were doing in those days when rates were low and one had to make a typewriter smoke in order to keep eating.

Because zombies can__ go out into the sun, most of them tend to be afraid of anything that can go into the sun and live to tell the tale.

At seventy-one you can't expect to hear a story, any story, and take it as it is. At my age a story stirs up a vortex that sucks into its eye more stories, and spits out still more. I must remember what I must.

Once upon a time,_ is code for ____ lying to you._ We experience stories as lies and truth at the same time. We learn to empathize with real people via made-up people. The most important thing that fiction does is it lets us look out through other eyes, and that teaches us empathy__hat behind every pair of eyes is somebody like us.