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Story Quotes by David Sedaris
- I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any…
- It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize…
- Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the…
- A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
- Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight…
- My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be…
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- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
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- 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