F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Stories Quotes, Jordan Quotes

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

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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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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , People Quotes , Stories Quotes

I like it when stories are left open.

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

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Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Stories Quotes

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Stories Quotes , Causes Quotes

The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.

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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Writing Quotes , Stories Quotes

You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought you’d like to know.

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Tags : Adam Gidwitz Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Stories Quotes

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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Tags : Aisha Hinds Quotes , Honor Quotes , Stories Quotes

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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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , People 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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Tags : Aaron Sorkin Quotes , Stories Quotes , May Quotes

I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Stories Quotes

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Stories Quotes

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Long Quotes , Stories Quotes

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Stories Quotes

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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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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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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Tags : Plato Quotes , Hero Quotes , Stories Quotes

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

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Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Moving Quotes , Stories Quotes