A story could have a mediocre beginning and middle, and oftentimes it does, but always gotta have a wow ending. Otherwise, what’s the point?
You know why I don’t finish my stories? Because once people know the end, the rest of the story just fades away.[to Spencer]
You know I’m gonna get the story one way or another. Wouldn’t you rather be in control of the conversation?[to Willis]
You have a past. You have a story, just waiting to be claimed.[to Soji]
When you spend as much time as I did collecting other people’s stories, you kind of stop having your own.
When the Great Library burned, the first 10,000 years of stories were reduced to ash. But those stories never really perished, they became a new story. The story of the fire itself. Of man’s urge to take a thing of beauty and strike the match.
What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? Stories. There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it.
There are no truths, just stories.[to Claudia Tiedemann 1986][Es gibt keine Wahrheit, nur Geschichten.]
The stories are best left to the guests.
The media don’t care if it’s lies, as long as there’s a good story.
Stories don’t disappear, they change. They become different stories.
Stories beat facts every time.