Particular Story Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by… — Donald E. Westlake
The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree… — Dinaw Mengestu
Thereâ€™s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story. — Tobias Wolff
Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A… — David Eagleman
I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story. — Frank Darabont
The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, whatâ€™s the right way to tell a particular story. — Richard Linklater
I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification… — Susan Orlean
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography,… — Tom Shippey
And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So Iâ€™m not narrating a… — Doris Salcedo
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely… — Karen Russell
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because… — Chris Crutcher
There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested… — Richard Linklater
Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for… — Lucy Walker
At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper… — Mark Z. Danielewski
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas… — Salman Rushdie
Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others.… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is… — Daniel Handler
Respect your characters, even the Âminor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking… — Sarah Waters
The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular story line even… — James Lafferty

Who Wrote These Particular Story Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 19 Particular Story Quotes as follows: