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Story Quotes

There’s not just one trans story. There’s not just one trans experience Picture Quote #1

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written Picture Quote #1

I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn’t telling no kind of story Picture Quote #1

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself Picture Quote #1

In science there is a dictum: don’t add an experiment to an experiment. Don’t make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don’t ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story Picture Quote #1

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages Picture Quote #1

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If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story Picture Quote #1

It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn’t advance the story Picture Quote #1

Everything that doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story Picture Quote #1

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I’ve been at it pretty much 50 years, and I’m now beginning to learn how to do the job well Picture Quote #1

I know that I’m a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone’s told me to Picture Quote #1

To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose Picture Quote #1

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Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings Picture Quote #1

I’ve never had one of those amazing yoga bodies. My body is what it is. I am sure if I went on a crash diet, lost two stone and toned up I could make loads of money by making fitness videos and selling my story to the tabloids. But I don’t want to encourage women to be anything other than what they are. That’s very important to me Picture Quote #1

Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I’ve always aimed to address the bigger picture and later trends. In many ways, what a photographer does is give others a chance to step back and look at their world and gain perspective on where we stand, and what that means Picture Quote #1

You can’t help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life Picture Quote #1

Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story Picture Quote #1

I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there’s still ink in the pen... and someday all that’s hazy through a clouded glass will be clear at last Picture Quote #1

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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this functional cosmology, we can overcome our alienation and begin the renewal of life on a sustainable basis. This story is a numinous revelatory story that could evoke the vision and the energy required to bring not only ourselves but the entire planet into a new order of magnificence Picture Quote #1

It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story Picture Quote #1

Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here? Picture Quote #1

I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system Picture Quote #1

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I’ve been and how I got to where I am Picture Quote #1

My biggest lesson... was to try and create narrators that were believable... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song Picture Quote #1

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Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the reader is the singular event that distinguishes one such voyage from all the others and makes for a story worth telling Picture Quote #1

How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we’ve come by... material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination, we may rightly claim it as our own... The way to make material your own is to look for it in yourself... It should be a story that only you can tell, as only you can tell it Picture Quote #1

Songwriters I’ve always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing... I’ve always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I’ve gone on, it’s gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now Picture Quote #1

There’s two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it’s been strained through some kind of white toast or something. It all sounds just too neat and perfect, with no surprise to it at all. No story, no nothing. It’s like building cars, like an assembly line. It doesn’t sound like anything that came from a guitar Picture Quote #1

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures Picture Quote #1

Speaking as a writer, I’m not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them Picture Quote #1

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There’s not just one trans story. There’s not just one trans experience (Story Quotes) I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written (Story Quotes) I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn’t telling no kind of story (Story Quotes) The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself (Story Quotes) In science there is a dictum: don’t add an experiment to an experiment. Don’t make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don’t ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story (Story Quotes) If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages (Story Quotes) If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story (Story Quotes) It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn’t advance the story (Story Quotes) Everything that doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story (Story Quotes) I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I’ve been at it pretty much 50 years, and I’m now beginning to learn how to do the job well (Story Quotes) I know that I’m a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone’s told me to (Story Quotes) To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose (Story Quotes) Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings (Story Quotes) I’ve never had one of those amazing yoga bodies. My body is what it is. I am sure if I went on a crash diet, lost two stone and toned up I could make loads of money by making fitness videos and selling my story to the tabloids. But I don’t want to encourage women to be anything other than what they are. That’s very important to me (Story Quotes) Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I’ve always aimed to address the bigger picture and later trends. In many ways, what a photographer does is give others a chance to step back and look at their world and gain perspective on where we stand, and what that means (Story Quotes) You can’t help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life (Story Quotes) Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story (Story Quotes) I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there’s still ink in the pen... and someday all that’s hazy through a clouded glass will be clear at last (Story Quotes) Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this functional cosmology, we can overcome our alienation and begin the renewal of life on a sustainable basis. This story is a numinous revelatory story that could evoke the vision and the energy required to bring not only ourselves but the entire planet into a new order of magnificence (Story Quotes) It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story (Story Quotes) Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here? (Story Quotes) I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system (Story Quotes) All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I’ve been and how I got to where I am (Story Quotes) My biggest lesson... was to try and create narrators that were believable... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song (Story Quotes) Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the reader is the singular event that distinguishes one such voyage from all the others and makes for a story worth telling (Story Quotes) How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we’ve come by... material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination, we may rightly claim it as our own... The way to make material your own is to look for it in yourself... It should be a story that only you can tell, as only you can tell it (Story Quotes) Songwriters I’ve always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing... I’ve always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I’ve gone on, it’s gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now (Story Quotes) There’s two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it’s been strained through some kind of white toast or something. It all sounds just too neat and perfect, with no surprise to it at all. No story, no nothing. It’s like building cars, like an assembly line. It doesn’t sound like anything that came from a guitar (Story Quotes) Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures (Story Quotes) Speaking as a writer, I’m not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them (Story Quotes)

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