Steven Erikson Quotes

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Writers are the history keepers.

I've always been interested in listening to people's stories.

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.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

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.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

Time is a wonderful storyteller.

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

In the end, we'll all become stories.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.