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252 Your Story quotes by 187 unique authors

Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to… — Colin Greenland
Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns… — Colin Greenland
The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is… — Jane Heller
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a room alone –… — Les Standiford
You have to live your story before being able to write your story. — Amy Shearn
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. — William Kittredge
Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes. — Tony Robbins
Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the courage to face… — Paulo Coelho
There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment on… — Nancy Kress
You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you. — Jonathan Kent
Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker … [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of… — Shirley Jackson
In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as… — Jeannette Walls
Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs. — Steve Saint
Pace doesn't mean speed; it means the right speed. Diagnosis and cure are simple. If you've reached where you want to be in your story… — Unknown Author
Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave,… — Max Lucado
Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a… — Mark Waid
Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. — Gary Vaynerchuk
Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying attention to context,… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Your story needs to move people’s spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from you, they feel… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else. — Iyanla Vanzant
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. — Helen Dunmore
There are people who can walk away from you... let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with… — T.D. Jakes
You can make it your excuse, or you can make it your story. — Isaiah Austin
If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? — Amy Purdy
So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one… — Dan B. Allender

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