“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” — Rumi

Following our previous post, “True Tile Tales,” we picked these tales up off the cutting-room floor, and the tiles came with them. A little bird told us they wouldn’t lie. So, truth be told…

Some stories are true that never happened.

— Elie Wiesel

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

—John Barth

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

—Don Miguel Ruiz

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

—Joan D. Vinge

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

— Isabel Allende

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

—Isaac Asimov

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

—Groucho Marx

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

— Orson Welles

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

—Chuck Palahniuk

It’s a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

— J. J. Abrams

Our tile tales are told in the visual dialect of Franglish, translated a la mode American Sentence haiku. If their transparency seems opaque as ink and pencil, please refer to footnotes for clarification. Thank you for looking in. That’s where the truth lies. Now we have to tile the cutting-room floor.

We all have stories we’re living and telling ourselves.

— Bruce Springsteen