Alan Rickman Quotes, Stories Quotes, Ends Quotes

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Stories Quotes , Wonderful Quotes

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

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Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

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I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.

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Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Stories Quotes , Literature Quotes

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Tree Quotes , Stories Quotes

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

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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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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

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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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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

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