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Stories Quotes by Natalie Goldberg
- One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.
- Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write…
- In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect…
- I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there…
- I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think,…
- Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
- As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We…
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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