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 Chris DLacey
You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls.
What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.
The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.
Learn a little patience. You never know what might be around the corner.
