Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

He. Does there have to be a he? It seems weak and unoriginal doesn’t it, for stories told by girls to always have a he?

It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.p 284

I know the resolution. I know the end of the story before it ever begins. I must choose love. And for this, I will surely die.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

Write about us,” Robinson urged. “Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.