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Stories Quotes by Shannon Hale
- Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell…
- I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the…
- I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only…
- ... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.
- Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then…
- Ani told them all...telling more than needed telling, the stories clarifying and unifying themselves in her mind as she let them spill out of her…
- In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I…
- How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and…
- The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think…
- Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.
- Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd…
- I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no way…
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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
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- 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
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- 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