Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Rocks Quotes, Stories Quotes

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

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

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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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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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The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

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I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

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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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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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I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

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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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