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But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate;(Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow. Shall dawn upon him desolate!)And round about his home the glory. That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story. Of the old time entombed. Edgar Allan Poe
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum. Alexander Dumas
I can’t explain why, I just know. Do you remember the first question I ever asked you?” “Yes, you asked me if I knew what being crazy meant.” “Exactly. This time I’m not going to tell you a story. I’ll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don’t understand the language they... Paulo Coelho
Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished; acted people's parts as he ate; mouthed them as he walked; now cried; now laughed; vacillated between this style and that; now preferred the heroic... Virginia Woolf
David Foster Wallace quote: "So yo then man what's your story?"
So yo then man what's your story? David Foster Wallace
Ken Follet quote: "But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best..."
But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us. Ken Follet
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it. Ray Bradbury
Nicholas Sparks quote: "A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the..."
A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home Nicholas Sparks
Mort Sahl quote: "I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the..."
I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story. Mort Sahl
Arundhati Roy quote: "Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted...."
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story. Arundhati Roy
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born. Clive Barker
Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me. Jeanette Winterson
That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed. Chuck Palahniuk
How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to doubt that you will tell your story. Joyce Carol Oates
Ann Patchett quote: "You are always someones favorite unfolding story"
You are always someones favorite unfolding story Ann Patchett

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