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 April Genevieve Tucholke
Freddie often fold me that you've got to be happy when you can, because life won't wait for you to take the time. And she was right.
Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.
Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.
All the strangest things are true.
Once upon a time I thought I could change stories, make them go the way I wanted, instead of where they actually went.
