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Stories Quotes by Lorrie Moore
- If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does…
- To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
- People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that…
- A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely…
- Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your…
- The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of…
- A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
- What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do:…
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