Stories Quotes
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Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.
Chris Brogan -
But the thing is that I’m in love with Rafael’s story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but in some ways our stories are all the same. I never really got that. But when I start to read Rafael’s journal, it’s as if I can see myself. It’s better than a mirror.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
George Eliot -
History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
Eric Van Lustbader -
To approach the stories in this way is to rob each author of his own integrity as an author and to deprive him of the meaning that he conveys in his story.
Bart Ehrman -
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.
Ernest Gaines -
When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.
Sofia Coppola -
If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.
Esther Hicks
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Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
Ray Bradbury -
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
Etgar Keret -
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
Sara Sheridan -
I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.
Harry Dean Stanton -
You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.
Charles Baxter -
I have to have an impact. That's what drives me to practice to make sure my words are clear and my stories are compelling. Right. Because it matters.
Simon Sinek
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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
Eve Bunting -
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.
Hilary Mantel -
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
Eugene H. Peterson -
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
Raymond Chandler -
I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.
Sarah Koenig -
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
Hilary Mantel
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Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.
Etgar Keret -
My job is more about helping people tell their stories in ever more interesting ways.
Eva Chen -
Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
Eudora Welty -
I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story.
Carson Kressley