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Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to…
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Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or…
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All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe…
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Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when…
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For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one…
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There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
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Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb…
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The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.…
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The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's…
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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your…
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To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year…
— Candace Bushnell
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If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the…
— Jay Baer
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All you really have in the end are your stories.
— Burt Reynolds
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In the back I see many potential legends, some of them with warrior spirits. And you will do the same for them.…
— The Ultimate Warrior
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You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
— Karen Russell
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If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of…
— James M. Cain
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Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we…
— Isabel Allende
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During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them…
— Ishmael Reed
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
— Anne Lamott
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And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you’ve made me…
— Barack Obama
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The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for…
— Oprah Winfrey
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The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.
— Sam Keen
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