She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn’t. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.

STORIES" it should not be the perfect,not be untold,not be romedy.. it should be the lesson to teach the human, whats the life is??

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?

I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.

All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.

Every small business has to become a publisher—a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.