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- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
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Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
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I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.
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I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fundamentally, one of the things I tend to migrate toward when I'm working is a story about people whose stories aren't told in theater.
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Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.
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- Nov 07, 2020