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Story Quotes by Amy Hempel
- Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to…
- I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you…
- An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
- I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.
- I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good…
- I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I…
- I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote.…
- I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write…
- I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the…
- Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question,…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will… — Chinua Achebe
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet.… — Margaret Atwood
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
- Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action… — Jensen Ackles