Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Stories Quotes

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

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A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Stories Quotes , Elements Quotes

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

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I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Stories Quotes , Firsts Quotes

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Stories Quotes , England Quotes

All love stories are the same.

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Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I'd love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.

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Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Stories Quotes

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

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Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Stories Quotes

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

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Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Stories Quotes , Storytelling Quotes

It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.” “I haven’t got it with me,” Sylvie whispered. “Then I won’t cry,” said Bruno manfully.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Stories Quotes

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

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