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I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.
I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.
People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.
I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor
Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.
The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.
Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.
The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.
The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.
If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.
The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.
I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?
Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.
I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
I think any good singer needs to be a good actor. You have to be able to tell the story.
I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction.
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.
You gotta tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it.
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.
In catholisism we have an entire religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
When you create something that connects, your story will travel faster than ever before.
I’ll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.
I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.
By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change.
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.
When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.