- Nov 07, 2020
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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman' is a reminder that people across the world are rebelling against norms and forging new paths for the most marginalized people in their own communities.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
- Literacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behaviour, and I knew I wanted to tell the human story, but I felt shy and unattractive and awkward.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.
- Detective
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
- Detective Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.
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- Nov 07, 2020