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If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.

If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.

If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

If the story's there for it, if there's a reason for it, then I'm all for it. But if you throw in a barbed wire match just to do a barbed wire match, then it makes no sense to me.

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations.

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.

If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70).

If two or more organs of the body are not squirting fluids, the story's no good!

If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories

If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.

If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerges as something to examine very carefully.

If we weren't doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was. I'm not saying that RoboCop is Shakespeare, but it's a way we're retelling. That's what we do as human beings. We retell our favorite stories.

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.

If wishes were stories, beggars would read.

If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are pointing out the only thing a story is about you are very probably wrong - even if you're the author.

If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.

If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you're making.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a reason we go back to stories that we love - so, even if there is a familiarity, if you can do it a different way and hopefully do it well enough, you actually feel the satisfaction of that anticipation given back to you.

If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is the joy that brought us literature in the first place, which is to have a story?

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

If you follow the trail of your own enthusiastically repeated stories, you will begin to rediscover the things that invigorate and enliven you.

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.