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  One wants to tell a story, like Scheherazade, in order not to die. It’s one of the oldest urges in mankind. It’s a way of stalling death.

  Carlos Fuentes

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  No story lives unless someone wants to listen.

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  Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

  Ram Dass

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• What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you’re in it.

  David Simon

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• Arithmetic is the death of story.

  Jincy Willett

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• If there’s a story you like, just write it up and see how it feels.

  Alan Sharp

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• Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I’m just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I’m trying to make the best story I possibly can.

  Brian Selznick

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• I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

  Brian Selznick

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  The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.

  Jordan Belfort

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• Everybody has their story – at some point you have to say, ‘This is who I am: Now it’s up to me to become what I want to be.’

  Monica Seles

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• I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

  Irvine Welsh

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  A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

   

  Irving Thalberg

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• A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

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• I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

  Diane Sawyer

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• Chekhov – shall I be blunt? – is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

  George Saunders

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• Our story is a ‘once upon a time’, but it’s not a ‘happy ever after’.

  Rupert Sanders

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  Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

  Kurt Vonnegut

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• A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

  Diane Setterfield

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• I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

  Gil Scott-Heron

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• And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

  Robert Frost

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