Stories Quotes
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A miracle is an invitation into a new story.
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The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
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Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
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I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.
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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.
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As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.
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I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.
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If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.
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Overnight success stories take a long time.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.
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The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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We people are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
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Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.
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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.
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You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
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One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
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I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.
