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Stories Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up…
- You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
- You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories,…
- Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and…
- Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person…
- There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their…
- You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
More Stories Quotes
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
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- 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
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- 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