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Stories Quotes by William Kittredge
- We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the…
- It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,…
- I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life…
- Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.
- We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of…
- Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives and…
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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