F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Rejection Quotes, Stories Quotes

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

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Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

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Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

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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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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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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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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.

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Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

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When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.

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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

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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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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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

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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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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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