Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

Les histoires sont des créatures sauvages. Quand tu les libères, qui sait ce qu'elles peuvent déclencher?

Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

Careful with what you know and what you experience. Sometimes, closed mouth with memories is better than opened mouth with stories.

Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild stew we are.

And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut they'll be real

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.