Story Quotes
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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 like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.
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Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.
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The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
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I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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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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I always like to tell a story.
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I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
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I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
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I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.
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There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.
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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
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The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.
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I think Measure C has been a success story. I don't like everything that's happened, but basically, it's been a great tool.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
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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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In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.
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My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.
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I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
