Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.
– Christopher Bram
Related Quotes:
- A disproportionate number of stories are love stories -“ and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love? – Christopher Bram
- We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
- People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
- Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
- If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living? – Christopher Bram
- Art is long and life is short. – Christopher Bram
- We’re happier when the ???????s are villains. – Christopher Bram
- Death is almost never timely, even for the old. – Christopher Bram
- There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate. – Christopher Bram
- Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex. – Christopher Bram
- Trust the tale, not the teller. – Christopher Bram
- Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction. – Christopher Bram
- Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist? – Christopher Bram
- An obsessed reader figured that -˜Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for -˜is a man I dreamt up’. – Christopher Bram
- Free to call a spade a spade (and a ???? a ????). – Christopher Bram
- In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up. – Christopher Bram
- A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés. – Christopher Bram
- Everybody is Other in Maupin. – Christopher Bram
- Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual. – Christopher Bram
- The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment. – Christopher Bram
- Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in -˜In Memory of WB Yeats’: -œYou were silly like us. – Christopher Bram
- A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one. – Christopher Bram
- It’s often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they’re going. – Christopher Bram
- Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex. – Christopher Bram
- The gay revolution began as a literary revolution. – Christopher Bram
- It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio. – Christopher Bram
- …all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull … – John Geddes
- Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. – AngieMarie Delsante
- Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining. – Matthew Jarpe
- Once upon a time, a king came to earth to tell stories, and the stories contained the mystery of eternal life. – Jared C Wilson
- Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past. – Christopher Babson
- Happiness in your life is directly related to your ability to love, not your ability to earn. – Debasish Mridha
- Life flows as a whole, both inside and out, but you divide life with your mind, both inside and outside. – Roshan Sharma
- What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can’t get that from a computer. – Sarah Jio
- We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people’s stories – that’s how it goes, does it not? – Susan Fletcher
- Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic. – Joan Holub
- There’s no future in stories…Stories are things of the past, things for museums. – David Mitchell
- Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories – Nourhan Mamdouh
- The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful – Lee BiceMatheson