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Stories Quotes by Lauren Oliver
- And this, really, is the story-within-the-story, because if you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a…
- You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
- I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that…
- We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.
- Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns…
- I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read in one of…
- That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless…
- The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.
- Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end…
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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