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The secret is to start a story near the ending.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.

The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me.

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.

The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which has risen to eminence have drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced by the children of the Northern forests who were.

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

The story of the gospel is so much better than the legal model suggests. It tells us that we are created as God's partners, not God's enemies. Sin does a lot of damage to that partnership - it disables us, it discourages us, it disturbs us - but it never destroys the bond that exists between God and humanity.

The story of the Republican Party is of a far-right that has moved from the fringes of the party to a complete domination of the party. The moderate, mainstream and pragmatic leaders of the party have been pushed out or died off.

The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.

The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

The story of James Delaney is also someone who very deliberately presents himself as an individual and plays nations against each other, plays the East India against the Crown, all of those sort of overwhelming concepts that ran the world at the time.

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials