Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide...
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Toni Morrison
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.
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Horacio Quiroga
But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
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Umberto Eco
I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has...
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Silas House
I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Nicholas Sparks
I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart...
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
