Particular Story Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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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
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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
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There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
— Tobias Wolff
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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
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I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
— Frank Darabont
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The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.
— Richard Linklater
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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
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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
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And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I’m not narrating a…
— Doris Salcedo
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: