Stories Quotes
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
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The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies. (Winfrey said) the belief this book is changing the lives of people trumps the fact that maybe the story is a fake. You would expect somebody in her position would take the ethical stand.
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Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.
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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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My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...
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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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Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
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I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.
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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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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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The songs are really stories and so you can tell them at any time in your life.
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Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.
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I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if you don’t make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.
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The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
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I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
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I’m sorry, but I don’t know any stories.
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We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.
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Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.
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You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.
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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
