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“These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.” quote by Jim Crace — Download Open image

“These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.”

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“On nights like this, when there is anxiety about, there is a glut of lovemaking. Then the moon is our dance master. He has…

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Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is…

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“There's not a season set aside for pondering and reveries. It will not les us hesitate or rest; it does not wish us to…

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“I am excused, I think, for wondering if I am the only one alive this afternoon with no other living soul who wants to…

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Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

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“Sometimes in matters of the heart words are not required. Are ill advised, in fact.”

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To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

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“I think I'd like her to turn round. I want to see her face a second time. That first time she was hardly visible.…

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“And it seems I ought to scatter too. Perhaps at once. It's always better to turn your back on the gale than press your…

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“Any hawk looking down on the orchard's cloistered square, hoping for the titbit of a beetle or a mouse, would see a patterned canopy…

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There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

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Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

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Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

Karen Thompson Walker

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When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

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Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the…

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She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to…

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It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

Patrick Rothfuss

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It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the…

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Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working…

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In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

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It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is…

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Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble…

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I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

Chelsea Manning

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