Story Quotes
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You have to live your story before being able to write your story.
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Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.
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I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.
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Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.
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People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.
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I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.
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I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.
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"The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.
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You can use your story, or your story can use you.
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The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
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I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.
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For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
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Every road and every step along it begins with a story.
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The Bible continues to tell the story of how God did not simply walk away from his creation in the midst of turmoil and rebellion but purposed to rescue it at great cost to himself through the sacrificial death and subsequent resurrection of his Son, Jesus.
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"Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
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I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved
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Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.
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Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of finding a way to show it and tell the story, in a way that brings in the audience.
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Any story that I write or tell is rooted in personal truths in some fashion or another, so they’re all very personal to me.
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When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
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If you're a real hip-hop fan and a real street music fan, and you just love good music, you're gonna play it from top to bottom, and you're gonna get the concept, you're gonna get the story of my life, you're gonna be entertained, you're gonna dance you're gonna feel emotion, you're gonna get the truth, whether you like it or hate it.
