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Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?

Don't be his story. Don't be anyone else's story. Be your own story. Protect yourself.

Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

Don't expect the unexpected. Let the unexpected expect you.

Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

Don’t just hit a home run. Knock it out of the park.

Don’t let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future.

Don’t look. See. Don’t think. Feel. Don’t hear. Listen. Pay attention Miracles really do happen every day

Don't sit, stand up! Do something; you can do wrong, but no problem, do it! At least you will have a story to tell others! If you don't do something, you will be storyless! And what is life? Life is nothing but a book of stories we write!

Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret, that it takes the form of a rebus whose message must be deciphered, that the stories we live compromise the mythology of our lives and in that mythology lies the key to truth and mystery. Is it an illusion? Possibly, even probably, but I can’t rid myself of the need continually to decipher my own life.

Do you ever wonder about the fairy tales of life?

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

-Dream up something wild and improbable. Something beautiful and full of monsters. -Beautiful and full of monsters? -All the best stories are.

Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else was subjugated to this ruling passion, reading stories. As a consequence, I can barely add a column of double digits, I have not the slightest idea of how a plane flies, I can't draw any better than a five-year-old.

During a famine, the father and stepmother of Hansel and Gretel abandon them in a forest so that they will starve to death. The children stumble upon an edible house inhabited by a witch, who imprisons Hansel and fattens him up in preparation for eating him. Fortunately Gretel shoves the witch into a fiery oven, and “the godless witch burned to death in a horrible way.” 41 • Cinderella’s stepsisters, when trying to squeeze into her slippers, take their mother’s advice and cut off a toe or heel to make them fit. Doves notice the blood, and after Cinderella marries the prince, they peck out the stepsisters’ eyes, punishing them “for their wickedness and malice with blindness for the rest of their lives.” Snow White arouses the jealousy of her stepmother, the queen, so the queen orders a hunter to take her into the forest, kill her, and bring back her lungs and liver for the queen to eat. When the queen realizes that Snow White has escaped, she makes three more attempts on her life, two by poison, one by asphyxiation. After the prince has revived her, the queen crashes their wedding, but “iron slippers had already been heated up for her over a fire of coals.... She had to put on the red-hot iron shoes and dance in them until she dropped to the ground dead.

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity...edit one more time!

Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but she’d dismissed it as a pure invention of the world of books. All those wilting heroes and heroines who suddenly gave up the ghost just because of unrequited love or longing for something they’d lost! Elinor had always enjoyed their sufferings—as a reader will. After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you’d never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself.

Energy will go into what you love, and what you love will grow. Go for a walk and watch it bloom.

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

Era a Diamantina, aquilo por histórias era pior que macaco por banana, eu bem antes dela chegar para morar com a gente, deixava-me dormir com as histórias do tio Zebra, mas agora ali aconchegadinho àquela prima quase da minha idade, a ver os seus olhos bonitos, as suas mãos entrapadas que faziam pena, a sentir o calor da sua coxa magrinha, a bater os pés na arca, desencontrados com as batidas secas dos seus calcanhares decalços, a história entrava por mim adentro como água de medo que é bom para beber em golinhos pequenos, que arrepio, fantasmas à noite, primas bonitas e lareira acesa, nao há melhor quando se tem dez anos.

Enzo thought ends were disappointing. He said when you were really immersed in a story, you started to have expectations. And the end was never as great as you imagined it could have been. Even though I mostly agreed with him, I couldn't help wanting to know everything. I was always looking for more.

Epiphanies awaken the soul.

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.

Everybody’s got sad stories.” Devon’s voice was as ungiving as stone. “And everyone thinks they’re so very special and broken because of them.

Eventually, I realized that history isn't about dates and themes. It's about people -- our beliefs, our actions, the relationships we have with each other, and the choices we make with our lives. History is made of human choices, human beliefs, and human relationships. Nothing fascinates me more.

Ever two seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies of starvation. That means every two seconds there is a story where the main character dies. That's a lot of horrible stories. So if my death looks like a sad story to someone else, I hope those people will use their imagination to think of all the children who don't get special deaths.

Every day sings its own song.

EVERYBODY has their own STORY...Each of Us CAN WRITE A BOOK...NOT for our own VAIN GLORY---But---as a 'ROAD MAP, a GUIDE BOOK of what 'To Do' --- and what 'Not to Do'--- to HELP OTHERS WHO COME BEHIND US---so that THEY WILL NOT FALL INTO THE SAME TRAPS THAT ENSNARED US.

Every day’s to-do list. 1.) Listen 2.) Trust 3.) Do

Every heart needed to contain stories that were too overwhelming to reveal to another human being, for fear that sharing them would diminish their enormity.

Every heart needed to contain stories that were too overwhelming to reveal to another human being.

Every experience is a book to be written.

Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.

Every heart must have its private bestseller book.

Every nation has hidden history, countless stories preserved only by those who experienced them. Stories of war are often read and discussed worldwide by readers whose nations stood on opposite sides during battle. History divided us, but through reading we can be united in story, study, and remembrance. Books join us together as a global reading community, but more important, a global human community striving to learn from the past.

Everyone has a story inside them. Some are bedtimes stories, some thrill and others scare and horrify their readers. Find out what your story is and share it with the world.

Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.

Every story has four parts: the beginning, the middle, the almost-ending, and the true ending. Unfortunately, not everyone gets a true ending. Most people give up at the part of the story where things are the worst, when the situation feels hopeless, but that is where hope is needed most. Only those who persevere can find their true ending.

Every small business has to become a publisher—a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.

everything in our culture tells men and boys to avoid any interest, activity or community dominated by women - and when article after article insists that boys are reading less than girls; when the pop cultural discourse shies away from portraying boys as readers, or closely associates male reading with male unpopularity and outcastness; when the humanities is widely touted as being the feminine alternative to the masculine sciences; when finally, after centuries of exclusion, girls are actually getting a break at something, the consequence is that boys are keeping away in droves. [...]Having been raised to exclude girls from manly pursuits, boys are also reluctant to pursue female ones. If that means reading – and in some cases, sadly, it does, reading and other sedentary or indoor hobbies being viewed as the antithesis of sports, and therefore by extension the enemy of all things masculine – then writing more boy-centric books won’t help. (Unless, of course, your ultimate long-term plan is to take reading away from girls and return it to boys, in which case, you fail everything.) If, on the other hand, you want boys and girls to be reading with equal passion and in equal numbers, then a very clear alternative presents itself: teach your boys that there’s nothing wrong with girls, or girl things, period. Take away the stigma, and let everyone read without judgement. Stories are genderless, no matter who writes or stars in them. And if we can’t bear to teach our teenagers that, then we need to seriously rethink our sstatus as an equal and fair society.

Every story has four parts - the beginning, the middle, the almost ending, and the true ending.

Every story needs to be worth telling.

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?

Everything that is old was once new.

Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function. We can't play football unless everyone believes in the same made-up rules, and we can't enjoy the benefits of markets and courts without similar make-believe stories. But the stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose touch with reality.

Every work of art tells a story.

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.