Story Quotes
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Isn't any friendship a love story?
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
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Every great love starts with a great story.
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Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.
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Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents.
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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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I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.
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All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.
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We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat.
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Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.
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I thought that for a long while, but you chose me, and then you chose him, and choosing is hard - one choice is never the end of the story.
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When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.
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Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.
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At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.
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I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with the mood of the story. I connect the physical setting and props in the story to the emotional state of the characters.
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What I expect from a good story is that it will tell me today what I can't know from any other source but that story, from its unique way of putting something into words, from the feeling that it implies.
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You don't have to turn the Page, I read the Story, it ends with you and me.
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A ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.
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She just wanted to story heard.
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I so wish people had seen it your way, but I think too many of us have read the story to say it gives European white males carte blanche to play God over creation; so `having dominion' gives them a license to pollute and exploit.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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For you, and and all the other readers who have followed the story to its conclusion...
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Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.
