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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
- Nov 07, 2020
The vampire story is something that has existed since 'Nosferatu,' and I don't think it's gonna go away.
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I'm a total slave to a good story.
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Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
- Identity
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Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
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For me, 'The Hobbit' is an object lesson in storytelling, both in terms of characterization and story structure. It is an exemplar of storytelling in that regard.
- People
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Studio people are bright. Empowering. They don't want to have to interfere creatively. That's their horror story, too.
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Now you know the rest of the story.
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The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.
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I do remember dancing in my living room when my short story 'The Laughing Man Meets Little Cat' won a Chizine fiction contest in 2002.
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I won't call 'Cabin' an anti-home invasion story, because that's not exactly true, but the home-invasion subgenre is one I generally don't gravitate toward as a reader or film viewer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's 'The Birth of the Pill,' I have no other recourse, since his narrative is full of larger-than-life characters sharply limned and embarked on fascinating doings, their story told in sprightly visual fashion.
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