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- I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have,…
- Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling…
- Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid,…
- I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I…
- As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.
- My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
- Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.
- Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
- I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a…
- Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us…
- We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse…
- Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people…
- Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
- One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he…
- Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle - oh, look, we broke down this wall, I'm going…
- Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change.…
- The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves
- And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the…
- I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating…
- Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot.…
- Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in…
- You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
- I spy with my little eye a great story.
- Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that…
- Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd…
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- 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