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“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

“If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Stories Use Strong Grows Wise Overcoming Stronger Disappointment Wiser Exam Makes You Stronger Success Stories Greatest Success Semester

Author:Loretta Young

“Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out something for a sequel or some cliff-hanger, that's not how I think of a satisfying story.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Individual Wise Storytelling Satisfying Cliffs Sequels Hangers

Author:Rian Johnson

“A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.”

Should Wells Stories Seems Sleep Wise Fool Please Applause Deviate Concise

Author:Benjamin Stillingfleet

“The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.”

Ifs Needs Wells Doe Ends Facts Stories Views Moral Wise Style Deserve Method Ill Seeking Historian Truthful Maxims Narration

Book:The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920

Source: The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920