Flannery O'Connor Quotes
A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.Flannery O'Connor
Quotes to Explore
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
Yair Lapid -
There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
Hanna Rosin -
We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
Viktor Orban -
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow -
I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
Zendaya -
What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
Malorie Blackman
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
Fede Alvarez -
People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
Dan Scanlon -
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
Ira Glass -
I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
Flavor Flav -
I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
Karin Slaughter
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
Harold E. Varmus -
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
V. S. Naipaul -
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates -
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
D. B. Weiss -
There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
Walter Cronkite
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...the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.
Karen Hesse -
French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort.
David Graddol -
You don't miss your water 'Till your well runs dry.
William Bell -
My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
Olivia Williams -
There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.
Russell Baker -
A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
Flannery O'Connor