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Stories Quotes by Amy Tan
- We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I…
- Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
- I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked…
- I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the…
- When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the…
More Stories Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe