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"The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer."
"I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it."
"You're only as good as your last story."
"As long as we have our stories there is hope."
"I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings."
"I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story."
"Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion."
"I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race."
"The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend."
"I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write."
"As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in."
"She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous."
"I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!"
"You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do."
"all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened."
"No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time."
"I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up."
"We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story."
"If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is."
"The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions."
