Hey, Salvo, " asked Max when they had almost fallen asleep. "May I write your story?"" Don't you dare, amico" was Salvatore's reply. "Kindly come up with your own storia, young Massimo. If you take mine, I'll have none left of my own
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 Nina George
We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.
It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.
...Time had seemed infinite when she still had many years and decades ahead of her. A book waiting to be written: as a girl, that was how she had seen her future life. Now she was sixty, and the pages were blank. Infinity had passed...
Whenever Monsieur Perdu looked at a book, he did not see it purely in terms of a story, retail price and an essential balm for the soul; he saw freedom on wings of paper.
She'll be your dance partner, Jordan""Her? She's much too good. I'm scared! "" Remember the feeling. Someday you'll want to write about it, and then it'll be good to know how the fear feels and to go ahead and dance all the same.
