“I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted,…”— Terry Goodkind, goodreads.com
“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.”— Sandra Dallas, amazon.com
“It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.”— Anne Carson, amazon.com
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”— Frank Herbert, sinanvural.com
“It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, amazon.com
“But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“You must include the sad parts, because they are part of the story, and they have to be part of the dreams.”— Lois Lowry, amazon.com
“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”— John Grisham, forbes.com
“I guess that is like most important things, and also people: we aren't much unless you know our story.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“There's a story behind every person. There's a reason they are the way they are. Think about that before you judge someone.”— Unknown, kcorley92.tumblr.com
“Being unable to finish a sentence because you’re laughing so hard about the ending.”— Nancy Vu, amazon.com
“Where does one begin when trying to make sense of a story that makes little sense at all?”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com