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Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.
The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.
I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
Begin as if you will finish. Let the story be told that you had the courage to begin.
My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.
When you have fans telling you their stories it makes you feel like you're not alone.
In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.
So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.
I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.
We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.
Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time.
My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.
Those two volleys really could be the story of this match summed up at the end of it.
A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.
She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.
I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.
But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.
Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat
Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.
Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over.
I'm not running, I'm not planning on running, and I've got nothing new on that story.
For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.
There's always stories about cute girls in the gym, I'm just not one of those people.
Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.
There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.
It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.
Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.
The comics were not only stories to enjoy for me they were drawings that possessed me.
I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it
There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.
The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.
And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.