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You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told. — Christopher Meloni

A wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. — Suzanne Selfors

I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after. — Peter Orner

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. — Roger Zelazny

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right. — David E. Kelley

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters — Julio Cortazar

Had I given equal weight to everyone who had something to say, every story would have turned into a terrible game of Twister (left — Ann Patchett

Everyone has a story within them, let yours out. — C.J. Heath

Be the story teller in your life ... never let anyone dictate what you're about. — Robbie Thomas

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told. — Jamais Cascio

Red Riding Hood is not a fairy tale, but rather a universal story about courage and growing up — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

You must live your story. — Michael Ende

But all along she had held within her a second story underneath the first, waging a terrible and silent battle with her certainty. — Lauren Groff

By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal. — Hailey Giblin

If something wants to be a story, it will be. — Scarlett Thomas

I want to make sure people know I don't think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share. — John Darnielle

One story ... one life ... one me ... consistently! Live It Well. — Chris Vonada

The divine pattern is your life
purpose. It is a story about your
divine self and it is written
within - your heart — Alain Yaovi M. Dagba

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song. — Kristian Bush

The heart responds to the conflict within a story. — Donald Miller

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that. — Alan Furst

I slip away into the night, I won't have much to take. Only the story of this life, with you, I leave behind — S.L. Northey

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary. — John Yau

Not everyone is meant to be a writer," Shyla said. "I do believe, however, that everyone has a story within them to be written. — Barbara Casey

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us. — Franz Kafka

All of life, Orhan realizes, is a story within a story; how we choose to listen and which words we choose to speak makes all the difference. — Aline Ohanesian

To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story. — Tim O'Brien

If you listen to only one side of the story, you are simply a coward. — Ben Tolosa

I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story. — Kevin Durand

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work. — Kirsten Prout

I think there's a lot you can learn from everybody; everybody has a story and a strength within them. — Crystal Renn

If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong. — Shanda Trofe

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories. — Radha Mitchell

Theme is not imposed on the story but evoked from within it- initially an intuitive but finally an intellectual act on the part of a writer. — John Gardner

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.
This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. — Rachel Higginson

Everybody is a story. — Rachel Naomi Remen

It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need. — Byron Katie

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story. — Kurt Loder

I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or entertaining them. — Kathryn Albright

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves. — Christina Baldwin

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. — Charlotte Eriksson

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do. — PJ Harvey

It's only a story, isn't it?" ...
"Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story? — David Eddings

Every painting tells a story. — A.D. Posey

Well, how did you die, then?" the old man finally asked.
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late. — J. Tonzelli

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story. — Peter Gabriel

Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?' — Terry Zwigoff

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well. — Guy Pearce

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story. — Katherine Mansfield

I will be lost and unlost, over
and over again, relax love. You
were meant to be this glorious.
Epic. Story. — Nayyirah Waheed

Every part of life changes with every breath we take. If you don't like where your story is headin', you fight your fate with everything you have. — Jessica Fortunato

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. — Horace Mann

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story. — Andrew Stanton

I think it's time for you to drop back into my life, ruin it, then disappear again: a love story. The — Melissa Broder

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change. — James Daly

I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles. — Kangana Ranaut

I have a story to tell to anyone who is willing to listen. — Samy Dib

The story you are holding was first published in 1969, which was, as you may know, a very interesting year. — Mario Puzo

I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write. — Richard Flanagan

I think it's essential to construct our lives
as if it's a story we want to tell. — Darrell Calkins

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts. — Amy Purdy

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. — Wendell Berry

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters. — James Dashner

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story. — Rob Walton