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I first emailed Tao Lin a story I wrote about the experience of losing my virginity sometime in April 2011. He didn't respond until it was later published on Thought Catalog, after which he sent me an email that said something very similar to, "I enjoyed reading this on Thought Catalog. Good job.

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

If it gets to a situation where it turns into a debate, look, the person that I'm debating is the person that is writing the story or presenting the broadcast. They're not going to write the story in such a way that shows they lost.

If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they'll go, "Tell me more." And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don't, it won't work.

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.

If more men would see a story of what it was like to be pregnant, and how it felt to be in a place where you had to make a decision about whether to keep a pregnancy, maybe they would feel differently about women's health care.

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .

I found that while it was interesting to travel around and take the photographs, I would find that I was more interested in the stories behind the photographs. I was more interested in narrative.

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.

If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

If someone said, "Would you like to do the period drama?," I'd say, "Hell, yeah! I'd love to do that!" To dig into history and do a story in some period would be great.

If something - if you have a good rapport then you're friends and you're offered projects together or you discover stories together. Jennifer and I discovered this story together, and it was evident to us we would only do it with each other.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

If the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human begin will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not upon the competence of the human knower.  It will be a kind of certainty which is inseparable from gratitude and trust

If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there’s one thing we authors are good at, it’s hand-waving.

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.

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 is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.

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

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 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 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 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).