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Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!

Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.

Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly vague but I never set out to be likeable or funny or anything like that. I'm just trying to tell the story in the best way that I can and serve the writer because it's really about the writer.

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.

Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.

Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.

Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world to enter. What's unique about a linked collection is that it can deliver both sets of narrative pleasures - the novel's long immersion into character-world and the story anthology's energetic (and mortal) brevity - the linked collection is unique in its ability to be both abrupt and longitudinal simultaneously.

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched out and some weaves being snatched off.

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.

Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.

Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And people don't always mention this part of directing, but it's also knowing how to really edit something into something that makes sense.

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.

VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.

Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.

Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.

WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.

War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?

We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.

We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us.

We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.