Philip Roth Quotes

I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.

I want to be a part of stories.

I think you can tilt too far to the side of the story where the message is just simply entertainment. So I think your goal has to be to craft in one sentence what the truth is you are trying to convey. And then you find or create a story that you wrap around that truth.

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

We are surrounded by story.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back.

We're all stories, in the end.

The human world is made of stories, not people.

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.