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 Sherry Thomas
Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.
Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.- Leo
Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she’d been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed...
I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.
