Adam Gidwitz Quotes, Cutting 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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The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

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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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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Stories Quotes , Storytelling Quotes

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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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

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

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All love stories are the same.

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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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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

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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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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

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