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The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.Collection: Stories
Always remember: In the end, the surviver gets to tell the story.Collection: Stories
Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don't have any restrictions.Collection: Stories
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.Collection: Stories
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.Collection: Stories
To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.Collection: Stories
Pamela Palmer's stories catch you, captivate you, and never let you go.Collection: Stories
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.Collection: Stories
This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?Collection: Stories
As my exciting story began I was being punched in the stomach.Collection: Stories
Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.Collection: Stories
Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend Hazardous Duty.Collection: Stories
I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.Collection: Stories
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.Collection: Stories
The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.Collection: Stories
Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.Collection: Stories
You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.Collection: Stories
I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.Collection: Stories
he's a story i want to know from page oneCollection: Stories
We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.Collection: Stories
I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.Collection: Stories
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.Collection: Stories
But this too is true: stories can save us.Collection: Stories
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.Collection: Stories
If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!Collection: Stories
If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.Collection: Stories
She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.Collection: Stories
Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.Collection: Stories
The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.Collection: Stories
It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.Collection: Stories
The story is the first thing and the last thing.Collection: Stories
Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.Collection: Stories
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him-they were part of his “road,” the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.Collection: Stories
But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.Collection: Stories
Make your life a story worth telling.Collection: Stories
Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.Collection: Stories
Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?Collection: Stories
Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.Collection: Stories
If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)Collection: Stories
What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.Collection: Stories
A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.Collection: Stories
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.Collection: Stories
I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.Collection: Stories
If something wants to be a story, it will be.Collection: Stories
You are always someones favorite unfolding storyCollection: Stories
every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arrangedCollection: Stories
You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.Collection: Stories
If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest wayCollection: Stories
"All stories should be completely planned out from beginning to end."Collection: Stories
A story? No. No stories, never again.Collection: Stories