Stories Quote by Alistair MacLeod Download Open image “I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.” — Alistair MacLeod ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stories Telling A Story Thinking Writing
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't find out why you needed to tell a story until you're telling it. — Misha Green Copy Share Image
Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it. — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
There is a certain joy in telling a story, and it gives me great pleasure to be a part of the process from scratch… — Prakash Raj Copy Share Image
I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way. — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
“And I am overwhelmed now by the awfulness of over-simplification. For now I realize that not only have I been guilty of it through… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Some men,” she would add in ominous seriousness, “are nice as pie in public but within their own homes they are mean and miserly… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it slanted against her window with a pinging sound, which meant it was close to hail, and then it was visible as tiny… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
“ On a clear day you can see Prince Edward Island , we would say. Not "forever", just Prince Edward Island.” — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
