“Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.”
“Then it was you who wounded Aravis?" "It was I." "But what for?" "Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.”
“I said that I have finished telling my story, not that the story is finished. I said before that no story is ever really finished, each one is part of a longer story and consists of smaller stories, some of which are told, others passed over in silence. And whenever you tell any one of the stories, whether you intend it or not, you include the shadow of all the others. The result is that once you have told one story, once you have undone the meshes of the net at one point, you are trapped. You are compelled to go on with the story. And because we ourselves, like all life, are stories, we become the story of the stories.”
“If you tell the story you will live the story. If you live the story you have to own the story. If you dont like the story your living, stop telling it.”
“There's a story that needs to be told : and as its mine I am the only one who can tell it right”
“As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.”