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Stories Quotes by Isabel Allende
- All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and…
- I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in…
- I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
- I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
- I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different…
- I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on…
- If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
- What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
- Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I…
- Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.
- All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
- I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap:…
- Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print,…
- A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.
- I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I…
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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