- 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
- Evening News
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Blacks were too scared to do anything, but they came out to greet James Meredith': That would have been the story in the evening news if I hadn't gotten myself shot. I got shot, and that allowed the movement protest thing to take over then and do their thing.
- Gingrich
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- Nov 07, 2020
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
- Geez
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- Nov 07, 2020
While my favorite book of short stories is Fredrick Brown's 'Nightmares and Geezenstacks,' my favorite single story is 'Sound of Thunder,' by Ray Bradbury.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
- Knight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to gravitate toward reporters who cover all aspects of the story: from personal aspects to the big picture that answer the 'so what' of a story.
- Constructing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there's a gap in the story.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.
- Replace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020