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It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.

It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life.

It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift.

It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

It may have taken nine years, and a whole lot of wrong turns along the way, but their story felt complete at last. Because, finally, she was his.

It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.

I told my whole life story in my book.

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over.

It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.

It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

I treasure the Bible. I live in it and work on it all the time. But it is not the word of God. It's the tribal story of a particular people, and the best thing about that story is that the story keeps growing and evolving.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.