Maya Angelou Quotes, Writing Quotes, Stories Quotes

When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

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I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

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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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Stories Quotes , Able Quotes

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

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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

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Love Quotes , Stories 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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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Stories Quotes , Jordan Quotes

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

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

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Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

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Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

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Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

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Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Stories Quotes , Want 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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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

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