Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old story quotes, story sayings, and story proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A story untold could be the one that kills you.Pat Conroy
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Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.Bruce Feiler
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Every story is informed by a worldview.Brian Godawa
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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.Chuck Palahniuk
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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.Ben Okri
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You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.Byron Katie
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Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.Sue Monk Kidd
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.Octavia E. Butler
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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.Philip Pullman
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There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.Bernie Mac
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Stories give color to black and white information.Todd Stocker
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The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.Jimi Hendrix
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There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete.Parmenides
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.Irving Thalberg
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The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.Annette Simmons
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We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.Maxine Kumin
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Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.J.D. Salinger
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All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.Isak Dinesen
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Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.Jo Deurbrouck
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There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.Wes Anderson
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Books are humanity in print.Barbara Tuchman
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Books are the open avenues down which, like kings coming to be crowned, great ideas and inspirations move to the abbey of man's soul.Ernest Dressel North
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.Christopher Morley
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A great book should leave you with many experiences. You live lives while reading it.William Styron
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I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big screen fig-tree.Sylvia Plath
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Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the to the viewer as a really big, scary one.Art Buchwald
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.Arthur Miller
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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.Ben Hecht
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All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things.Bobby Knight
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The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.C.E.M. Joad