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Stories Quotes by Daniel Quinn
- When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored…
- We are all captives of a story.
- Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never…
- The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize…
- No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.
- Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of…
- [T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the…
- There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with…
- The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.
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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
- 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