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“A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.”

Way Writing Said Stories Would Be Asks Fiction Statements Abstract Inadequate

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.”

Ifs Stories Asks Easy Horror Accounts Bank Accounts Horror Stories

Author:Carolyn Maloney

“Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.”

Whole Stories Reading Asks Imagination Ability Creative Written Reader Pages Whole Life Life Experience Written Word Creative Imagination

Author:Katherine Paterson

“If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”

Ifs Book Stories Might Asks Wise Written Agony Untold Stories

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.”

Kind Doe Stories Moving Asks Challenges Vision Roles Directors Etc

Author:Lukas Haas

“If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.”

Ifs World Two War Stories Fighting Asks Generations War Of The Worlds Future Generation World War Two

Author:Frank Knox

“I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.”

Wells Done Stories Film Asks Chance Roles Heard Ready Lifetime Titles Well Done Abba Overjoyed

Author:Boman Irani

“I've heard stories about me as a kid. My dad got me a T-shirt that said "here comes trouble," and when I ask my mom what I was like, she just sighs with this weary tone and says, "Oh, you were really busy."”

Said Stories Kids Asks Trouble Heard Mom Dad My Dad Busy My Mom Shirts Tone Weary Sigh T Shirt

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.”

Feels Should Kind Mean Persons Stories Turns Asks Talking Car Students Type Beats Stranger Journalism Worried Journalist Retiring Tape Loan Edits Capers

Author:David

“First of all I have to ask myself what am I trying to say and who am I trying to tell the story to. So if it's just 300 words going in the Independent it's very much where, what, who and when - fantastic. If there's a little bit more scope, if I've been given 1500 words by the sports editor, and I can have a little bit of fun, then I need to maybe entertain, include some different stuff.”

Ifs Needs Trying Firsts Littles I Can Different Stories Asks Given Fun Stuff Bits Sports Little Bit Independent Fantastic Editors Scope

Author:Steve Bunce

“every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?”

Stories Asks Experiments Short Story

Book:Stories

Source: Stories

“landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.”

Stills Stories Asks Landscape Beloved Description Invites Still Life Narration

Book:Spillville: A Collaboration

Source: Spillville: A Collaboration

“The media uses polls to create news stories. I think polls are just an extension of the editorial page, an excuse to get them on the front page. You can ask any question you want, get any answer you want, and then run around with that as a news story.”

Thinking Want Stories Use Running Asks Answers Media Fronts News Pages Excuse Extensions Polls Editorials News Stories

Author:Rush Limbaugh