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Stories Quotes by Richard Russo
- By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be…
- I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be,…
- Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because…
- I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got…
- A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
- What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring…
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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