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Stories Quotes by David Levithan
- I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to…
- This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
- I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
- Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over…
- I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
- How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.
- It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know…
- I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories,…
- I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the…
- I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.
- I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a…
- Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we…
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