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Story Quotes
Every story is worth telling well.
One line here is about recognizing a story too rarely told, another about a lasting preference for tales of the underdog and survival. For similar reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
- Sincerity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have done 'Shivalinga' because I liked the story. My character, especially, is very impressive.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love Shakey Bill to tell me a story - I mean, William Shakespeare, he could squeak a nib couldn't he?
- Every
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There's conflict in every story.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?
- Nov 07, 2020
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1978, 'Time' magazine sent me to do a story about children in Southeast Asia fathered by American GIs. What I saw was very upsetting, but the story they published was whitewashed.
- Business
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Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I've traveled around the world and made love with many satisfied women. So I decided to share my story.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.
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A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely.
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