Stories Quotes (page 54)

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• eating
• end
• healthy living

Sorry, theres no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story. Morgan Spurlock

• to live
• ordering
• orders

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion

• school
• enough
• enough is enough

This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story. Karl Pilkington

• good
• pain
• writing

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth. Paula Danziger

• best
• learning
• real

If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you. Bernard Malamud

• king
• country
• countries

In the country of the story the writer is king. Shirley Jackson

• end
• work
• grace

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace. Katherine Anne Porter

• love
• writing
• real

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) L. M. Montgomery

• writing
• story
• writings

On the whole, stories don't write themselves. Neil Gaiman

• experience
• himself
• meaning

For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction. Flannery O'Connor

• good
• strength
• writing

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. Richard Ford

• blue
• promise
• wonderful

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to the one who opens the door, who passes on what was found there, and to those who hear what the storyteller brings. The faculty of wonder, like curiosity can make things happen; it is time for wishful thinking to have its due. Marina Warner

• true
• story

There is no story that is not true. Chinua Achebe

• life
• writing
• manly

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write on story, and writes another. J. M. Barrie

• evening
• together
• points

I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together. Nick Hornby