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Stories Quotes by Daniel Handler
- A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked…
- I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture…
- The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week,…
- Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible…
- For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White'…
- 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…
- Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can often blend together,"…
- We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.
- An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead…
- The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with…
- If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down
- Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with…
- A mystery is solved with a story.
- This story is about the Baudelaires. And they are the sort of people who know that there’s always something. Something to invent, something to read,…
- Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell…
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
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell. — Alan Ball
- Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her… — Nien Cheng
- Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter;… — Annie Besant
- In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel
- I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him… — Janis Joplin