Milan Kundera Quotes

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

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

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

When Brad [Pitt] responded [to Allied], suddenly what was impossible became possible, which was great. But along the way, whenever I told the story, it had an affect on people. At its core, this was an effective story.

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

There are so many people I would love to meet and say thank you for posting their videos, because hearing their stories and everything comforted me.