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Stories Quotes by David Sedaris
- I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any…
- It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize…
- Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the…
- A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
- She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building…
- Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight…
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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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- 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