Story Quotes
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I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.
Nicole Krauss -
As a writer, I always try as hard as possible to get out of the way of the story, so maybe that's the most important thing my readers should know - I'm all about the story, not about the ego.
Simon Toyne
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Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
Albert Camus -
Every great love starts with a great story.
Nicholas Sparks -
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.
Elena Ferrante -
She just wanted to story heard.
Adam Horowitz -
Why do bad things happen to good people?Because it makes a good story.
Andrew Kaufman -
If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.
Paul Mazursky -
I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.
Steven Spielberg -
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.
Melissa Bank -
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.
Ethan Canin -
Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.
Siegfried Lenz -
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
Nic Pizzolatto
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The story might sound like common gossip when told by another person, but in the mouth of a storyteller, gossip was art.
BarbaraNeely -
Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
Susanna Kearsley -
Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
Sarah Pinborough -
The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
Joyce Kilmer -
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.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
Harvey Fierstein
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You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at last, the one that ends in joy.
Catherynne M. Valente -
I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
Steven Moffat -
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not. The job's the same and I don't have any sort of genre preferences. I'm looking for a good story and a good character, whether earthbound or not.
Harrison Ford