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Stories Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it…
- I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually…
- I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
- Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
- Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill…
- That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s…
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
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- 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