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Stories Quotes by Leonard Michaels
- Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.
- The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.
- Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The…
- I can only gesture at what makes a story good.
- Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.
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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
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- I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell. — Alan Ball
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