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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A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.

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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

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All love stories are the same.

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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

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

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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

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

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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

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You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

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The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

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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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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?" Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

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

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I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

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