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“The old adage that ‘there are two sides to every story’ is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.”
“It’s the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don’t you?”
“There’s always a story that people are telling about themselves, and sometimes you can get them to tell it ever so slightly differently.”
“It’s a question of wanting to know how the story turns out. And one can only know that about one story, ever.”
“As far as I’m concerned, story is everything. It is why we get up in the morning and how we choose who to take to bed at night. Story is the thread that weaves together the very fabric of reality.”
“The more ‘life’ a story has the more readily will it be susceptible of allegorical interpretations: while the better a deliberate allegory is made the more nearly will it be acceptable just as a st...”
“There’d be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we’d die unstoried deaths.”
“It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can.”
“I'd prefer her story than history.”
“So what’s your story?” Ryan asks.Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. “My story?”“Yeah. Everybody has at least one.”
“I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn— that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong on...”
“If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.”
“Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.”
“For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad so tender yet so true.”
