Stories Quotes
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I think tone gives birth to the story.
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People have become so much more obsessed with the stories behind their food. When we go the market to buy bacon, we want to know where that pig came from and what processes were involved in getting it to us.
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A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.
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Seeing Pretty Little Liars fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity.
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At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.
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You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.
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The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
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We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
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If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.
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Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.
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At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.
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Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.
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In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.
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I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
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If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!
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The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
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A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber warfare.
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If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
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I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.
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But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.
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I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.
