Story Quotes
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I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.
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It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.
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He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.
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How many times have I thought of me sitting on a bench with him and me wriggling away from whatever he wanted to talk to me about. Sometimes you say you're going to write a story about that and sometimes it just arrives, and those scenes arrive.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.
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Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.
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Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
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I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.
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I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
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What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
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I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
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The entire story of 'Elizabethtown' arrived quickly, ... a tale of love and loss and the discovery of family roots in the aftermath of a very black turn of events in the life of a young shoe designer, Orlando Bloom. It was a story that would start with an ending and end with a beginning and, I hoped, give a sense of what it was to be truly alive.
