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 Aleksandar Hemon
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from consciousness to nonexistence, with all the attendant fear and humiliation of...
