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To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night. — Lorrie Moore

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up. — Kevin J. Anderson

The best thought any writer ever come up with is of having a world with Dragons. — Viraj J. Mahajan

That night I sat up writing in my diary writing to Big Me: 'I hope you are alive ' I wrote. 'I hope that I don't die before you are able to read this. — Dan Chaon

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story. — SonReal

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down - or up, I suppose - replacing other people in the process. — Alexander McCall Smith

I was such a messed up person and he was still holding on. — Holly Hood

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it. — Rodney King

How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere? — Markus Zusak

Don't give up. Don't give up no your story. Don't give up on the people you love. Hope is real. Love is real. It's all worth fighting for. — Jamie Tworkowski

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story. — Amy Hempel

The easiest kind of lying is when you leave things out of a story rather than make them up. — Ransom Riggs

Has your life ever been so messed up that you wondered how you would survive another day? — Alisa Mullen

I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. — C.S. Lewis

Those two volleys really could be the story of this match summed up at the end of it. — Barry Davies

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.' — Monica Seles

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you. — Yann Martel

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love. — Donald Barthelme

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed that I was due a love story. — Sara Barnard

The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one's eyes, is powerful indeed. — Michael Crichton

When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio. — Reggie Lee

'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience. — Bobbie Ann Mason

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again. — Ze Frank

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused. — Lance Armstrong

If it wasn't for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn't have the Lil Waynes and people with their own labels. — Drew Sidora

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to. — Maurice Sendak

Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own. — Majid Kazmi

because the easiest kind of lying is when you leave things out of a story rather than make them up, I passed with flying colors. — Ransom Riggs

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story. — Gus Van Sant

You could make mistakes when you lived together because you knew you'd wake up the next morning with another chance. — Ariel Sabar

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

But I'd better not go to fast in my story, for all things want their order, and no matter how early one gets up, dawn doesn't come any sooner. — Camilo Jose Cela Conde

The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down! — Kaza Kingsley

Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be. — Rae Hachton

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s. — Joe Pantoliano

Socrates held up his hands, wiggling his fingers. God gave me these hands to change the world, one child at a time. — Red Phoenix

It's a great privilege to not know where you'll end up, just where you're headed. It's the only way to get there. — Brianna Wiest

And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up to the top — John Ajvide Lindqvist

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. — Jonathan Gottschall

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles. — Deborah Norville

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life. — Rob Sheffield

We live in the world we made up. — Jim Paul

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling. — Chester Brown

There is an integrity to story that comes from a real life lived in it. A story is clearly illumined from being raised up in it. In — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

You pulled one story from your head, and another story popped up in its place, like tissues from a box. — Eileen Pollack

I'm the only one who can accurately tell my story. It's up to me to make it worth reading. — Keisha Elle

You got a story to tell, and you are the only one who can tell it. Don't give up! — Neil Gaiman

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds. — Janette Rallison

My story, or my life or my legacy can hopefully show [fans] that once you're down, that doesn't mean you're down forever. You never let up. — Chris Brown

I made this story up to make me feel better. Now I'm writing it down. It's not true. — Neil Gaiman

When you meet God in the story of Jesus. You get swept up into a story of such cosmic drama and beauty that you are forever changed. — J.D. Greear

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up. — Adam Sandler

The British story of Peter Pan is about a boy who never grows up and plays all day. — Donna Jo Napoli

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors. — Augusten Burroughs

Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story) — Scott Westerfeld

The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story. — Shandy L. Kurth

If I have only one coin left in the world, I will buy a rose to propose to you. — Amit Kalantri

The blinking of eyes is an involuntary reflex action, provided they eyes are not watching your beauty. — Amit Kalantri

The dream is you never giving up on your story because no one else can play your part. — Jamie Tworkowski

Where a story ends is nothing more than a snapshot in time, a brief flash of emotion, a pause. How and if it continues is up to us. — Hugh Howey

Narrative is the way to communicate ideas. Philosophy just tastes bad to most people unless you wrap it up in a good story. — Lily King

My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus. — Yelle Hughes

You've built up this idea about me, this ideal, but I'm not that person. I'm not perfect. I am far from perfect. I'm not worth such a beautiful story. — Stephanie Perkins

[R]ed hair is slow to lay back once it's got its dandruff up, and her bitchy mood required further opportunity to express itself. — Tom Robbins

Somewhere in our Darkest Nights we made up a story about a Man who will never let us down. — Grant Morrison

But her story isn't finished, and for once she's picked up a pen. — Kelsey Sutton

Book Buzzed: When you stay up until midnight to finish a book, but then can't fall asleep until 1 a.m. because the story was so amazing. — Jennifer Bardsley

The more personal you get, the more universal a story you end up telling. — Francesca Gregorini

Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame. — Leonard Ravenhill

We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up — Madeleine Black

Style jazzes up your canvas. — A.D. Posey

I'm not saying I'm against evolution. It's okay. Here's the story on reptiles, however. Think this over. They come up on — William Peter Blatty

Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection. — Miguel Ruiz

Do you know how many times I've read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" to this kid? That is one fucked-up story. How is that a book for babies? — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be sad about. — Darrell Bock

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax. — Samuel Goldwyn

I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line. — Amy Hempel

My story can't be summed up in two or three sentences; it can't be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand. — Nicholas Sparks

The weapon made me think of the Bible story I had been studying. "Wake up, Deborah! . . . Arise, O Barak, — Sharon Hinck

Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own — Holly Smale

It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities. — Michael Almereyda

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings. — Caroline B. Cooney

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening. — Rumi

If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to. — Thea Harrison

...your heart spoke for you. You gave up everything for me. — Camilla Isley

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up. — Jonathan Carroll

And then she woke up and it was all a dream.' It was just about the worst ending you could have to any story. — Terry Pratchett

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist. — Lenny Kravitz

It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time. — Alice Walsh

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on. — Aaron Stanford

Christian Fiction is like a parable. The story is made up, but the truth is brought to life. Enjoy the story, but savor the truth. — Mary Ann Brantley

Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason. — J.D. Salinger

If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story. — Joss Whedon

It's so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding. — L.M. Montgomery

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. — Raymond Queneau

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes. — Jonathan Safran Foer

In order to access a warrior's courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are afraid will happen if we give it up. — Debbie Ford

We should come up with another name for you," he says casually. "Something tougher than 'Stiff'. Like 'Blade' or 'Killer' or something. — Veronica Roth

Come on Princess," he sighs, as he scoops me up off the sand and carries me to my room. "I'm not going to be able to sleep, unless I know you're safe. — Jillian Dodd

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed. — Darren Shan