“There are books full of great writing that don't have very good
stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs
who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be
like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that
has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
―Stephen King
“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own
head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build
ourselves out of that story.”
―
Patrick Rothfuss
“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes
their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive
them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your
words. That is your role, your gift.”
―
Erin Morgenstern
“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story
books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders,
coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come
from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with
the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed
on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my
arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready
for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...”
― Eudora Welty
“There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the
day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt
legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour
it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the
story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.”
― Mitch Glazer
