Alan Ball Quotes, Stories Quotes, Storytelling Quotes

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

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

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

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

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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Stories Quotes , Literature 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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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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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Stories Quotes , Heard Quotes

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

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The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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

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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

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

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