Story Quotes
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So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.
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Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.
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Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.
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I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.
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A good story never dies.
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
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It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.
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The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.
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In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.
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Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?
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It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
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Why do they call them daytime dramas, anyway? Shouldn't they be bedtime dramas? All anyone ever talks about is getting someone into bed! Plus if you're at home watching, you're probably watching in bed. And if you're like me, after an hour or two of watching all those sexy goings-on you forget the silly story entirely and fall asleep. Just like it's bedtime!
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I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimized in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others.
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We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.
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For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you are getting the story right.
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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.
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Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.
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A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.
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Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
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All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.
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Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.
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There's conflict in every story.
