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Story Quotes by Isabel Allende
- I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in…
- I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
- I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
- I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different…
- I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on…
- If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
- What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
- Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print,…
- A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.
- I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I…
- Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap…
- If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.
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- 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
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- 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
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