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The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of--I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters--I live and breathe them. Gustave Flaubert
Okay. The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air-until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore. "My God, this is terrible," the wave says. "Look what's going to happen to me!" Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and it says to him, "Why do you look so sad?"The first wave says, "You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are... Morrie Schwartz
Thomas Hardy quote: "If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals..."
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? Thomas Hardy
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. Albert Einstein
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world. David Hume
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors. Chinua Achebe
Jeffrey Archer quote: "While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so..."
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. Jeffrey Archer
If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want. Paulo Coelho
Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life. Stephen Covey
Rumi quote: "Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with..."
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Rumi
Paul Auster quote: "The truth of the story lies in the details."
The truth of the story lies in the details. Paul Auster
Isabel Allende quote: "A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with..."
A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. Isabel Allende
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion. Eudora Welty
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose “story” “plot” “continuity”... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer... William S. Burroughs
Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever - at least, not within the confines of my heart. Shusaku Endo

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