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 Arundhati Roy
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a...
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify...
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much...
At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no...
